Practice-level variation in use of recommended medications among outpatients with heart failure insights from the NCDR PINNACLE Program

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1132-1138

  Peterson, Pamela N ^a,b   Chan, Paul S ^c   Spertus, John A ^c,d   Tang, Fengming ^c   Jones, Philip G ^c   Ezekowitz, Justin A ^e   Allen, Larry A ^b   Masoudi, Frederick A ^b   Maddox, Thomas M ^b,f  

^a DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SAINT LUKE S MID AMERICA HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Pharmaceutical preparations; Registries

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE REGISTRY; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE AND REDUCED EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTPATIENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CARDIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; CLINICAL TRIAL; PROCEDURES;

HEART FAILURE; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; REGISTRIES;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; CARDIOLOGY; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; OUTPATIENTS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84892638668     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.113.000163     Document Type: Article

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