Temporal Trends and Variation in Early Scheduled Follow-Up after a Hospitalization for Heart Failure: Findings from Get with the Guidelines-Heart Failure

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  DeVore, Adam D ^a   Cox, Margueritte ^a   Eapen, Zubin J ^a   Yancy, Clyde W ^b   Bhatt, Deepak L ^c   Heidenreich, Paul A ^d   Peterson, Eric D ^a   Fonarow, Gregg C ^e   Hernandez, Adrian F ^a  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; hospital readmission; outpatients; transitional care

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BYPASS SURGERY; CATHETERIZATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EARLY FOLLOW UP; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PACEMAKER; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; REGISTER; RESIDENTIAL CARE; TIME FACTOR; TRANSITIONAL CARE; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSITIONAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84955327316     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.115.002344     Document Type: Article

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