2020
Impact of left ventricular assist devices and heart transplants on acute myocardial infarction and heart failure mortality and readmission measures
Brandt EJ, Ross JS, Grady JN, Ahmad T, Pawar S, Bernheim SM, Desai NR. Impact of left ventricular assist devices and heart transplants on acute myocardial infarction and heart failure mortality and readmission measures. PLOS ONE 2020, 15: e0230734. PMID: 32214363, PMCID: PMC7098556, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230734.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLeft ventricular assist deviceHeart transplantation patientsRisk-standardized mortalityHeart transplantationTransplantation patientsAMI cohortReadmission cohortHF cohortVentricular assist deviceAMI mortalityAssist deviceHeart failure mortalityAcute myocardial infarctionHF mortalityLVAD indicationHF patientsLVAD patientsReadmission ratesHeart transplantMyocardial infarctionPrimary diagnosisReadmission measuresMedicare feeChronic supportPatients
2017
Age Differences in Hospital Mortality for Acute Myocardial Infarction: Implications for Hospital Profiling.
Dharmarajan K, McNamara RL, Wang Y, Masoudi FA, Ross JS, Spatz EE, Desai NR, de Lemos JA, Fonarow GC, Heidenreich PA, Bhatt DL, Bernheim SM, Slattery LE, Khan YM, Curtis JP. Age Differences in Hospital Mortality for Acute Myocardial Infarction: Implications for Hospital Profiling. Annals Of Internal Medicine 2017, 167: 555-564. PMID: 28973634, PMCID: PMC9359429, DOI: 10.7326/m16-2871.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRisk-standardized mortality ratesAcute myocardial infarctionOlder patientsYounger patientsMyocardial infarctionAge groupsHospital risk-standardized mortality ratesRetrospective cohort studyHospital mortality rankingsNational Quality ForumHospital mortalityMedian hospitalHospital outcomesCohort studyACTION RegistryAMI mortalityAmerican CollegeMedicare beneficiariesAMI hospitalizationPatientsMortality rateHospitalQuality ForumHospital ValueHospital profiling