2024
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital-based heart failure care in New South Wales, Australia: a linked data cohort study
McIntyre D, Quintans D, Kazi S, Min H, He W, Marschner S, Khera R, Nassar N, Chow C. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital-based heart failure care in New South Wales, Australia: a linked data cohort study. BMC Health Services Research 2024, 24: 1364. PMID: 39516863, PMCID: PMC11545568, DOI: 10.1186/s12913-024-11840-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHeart failure careNew South WalesHospital admissionHealth service utilisationAdministrative health recordsPrimary diagnosis of heart failureData cohort studyRate of admissionPre-pandemicHealth of patientsSouth WalesCOVID-19 pandemicHospital utilisationService utilisationHealth recordsED presentationsMortality dataDiagnosis of heart failureCOVID-19 burdenEmergency departmentCohort studyPrimary diagnosisData collectionCareAustralian data
2022
Variation in coronary angiography use in Out-of-Hospital cardiac arrest
Agusala V, Dale P, Khera R, Brown S, Idris A, Link M, Mody P. Variation in coronary angiography use in Out-of-Hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2022, 181: 79-85. PMID: 36332772, DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2022.10.020.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRates of CAGEarly coronary angiographyCoronary angiographyST elevationNon-shockable rhythmTrial clustersOHCA patientsShockable rhythmInitial non-shockable rhythmHospital cardiac arrest patientsUse of CAGCoronary angiography useInitial arrest rhythmInitial shockable rhythmPost-resuscitation electrocardiogramProportion of patientsOverall study populationCardiac arrest patientsHospital cardiac arrestArrest rhythmAngiography useHospital admissionArrest patientsCardiac arrestNational cohort
2020
Post-discharge acute care and outcomes following readmission reduction initiatives: national retrospective cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries in the United States
Khera R, Wang Y, Bernheim SM, Lin Z, Krumholz HM. Post-discharge acute care and outcomes following readmission reduction initiatives: national retrospective cohort study of Medicare beneficiaries in the United States. The BMJ 2020, 368: l6831. PMID: 31941686, PMCID: PMC7190056, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l6831.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute care utilizationAcute myocardial infarctionRetrospective cohort studyHeart failureCare utilizationPost-discharge periodEmergency departmentMyocardial infarctionDay mortalityCohort studyHospital admissionObservation unitAcute careNational retrospective cohort studyPost-acute care utilizationHospital Readmissions Reduction ProgramObservation unit carePost-discharge mortalityDay readmission rateRisk of deathReadmissions Reduction ProgramReadmission reduction initiativesReadmission ratesUnit careInpatient unit