National survey of hospital strategies to reduce heart failure readmissions findings from the get with the guidelines-heart failure registry

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 680-687

  Kociol, Robb D ^a,b,i   Peterson, Eric D ^a,b   Hammill, Bradley G ^a   Flynn, Kathryn E ^a   Heidenreich, Paul A ^a,e   Piña, Ileana L ^a,d,f   Lytle, Barbara L ^a   Albert, Nancy M ^a,g   Curtis, Lesley H ^b   Fonarow, Gregg C ^a,h   Hernandez, Adrian F ^b,c  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^f CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Outcomes; Registrie

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DISEASE REGISTRY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DATA COLLECTION; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873383996     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.112.967406     Document Type: Article

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