2018
Quality Improvement Initiatives to Reduce Mortality: An Opportunity to Engage Palliative Care and Improve Advance Care Planning
Flieger SP, Spatz E, Cherlin EJ, Curry LA. Quality Improvement Initiatives to Reduce Mortality: An Opportunity to Engage Palliative Care and Improve Advance Care Planning. American Journal Of Hospice And Palliative Medicine® 2018, 36: 97-104. PMID: 30122054, DOI: 10.1177/1049909118794149.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAdvance care planningPalliative careCare planningQuality improvement initiativesAcute myocardial infarction mortalityPalliative care trainingImprovement initiativesMayo Clinic Care NetworkMyocardial infarction mortalityQuality improvement staffEnd of lifeAcute eventPatient goalsAMI mortalityCare trainingSecondary analysisMortalityFamily preferencesCare networkCarePatientsCliniciansQuality outcomesFamily goalsHospital executives
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