2023
Opportunities and Achievement of Medication Initiation Among Inpatients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction
Swat S, Xu H, Allen L, Greene S, DeVore A, Matsouaka R, Goyal P, Peterson P, Hernandez A, Krumholz H, Yancy C, Fonarow G, Hess P, Program A. Opportunities and Achievement of Medication Initiation Among Inpatients With Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction. JACC Heart Failure 2023, 11: 918-929. PMID: 37318420, DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2023.04.015.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEvidence-based medicationsMedication initiationReduced ejection fractionNumber of medicationsMultivariable logistic regressionNumber of patientsPre-existing conditionsReduced ejectionEjection fractionHeart failureMultivariable analysisFemale sexLower oddsMedicationsMean net gainPatientsRural hospitalsAdmissionOlder ageLogistic regressionStudy periodMean numberOddsInitiationRural locations
2014
Hospital variation in risk-standardized hospital admission rates from US EDs among adults
Capp R, Ross JS, Fox JP, Wang Y, Desai MM, Venkatesh AK, Krumholz HM. Hospital variation in risk-standardized hospital admission rates from US EDs among adults. The American Journal Of Emergency Medicine 2014, 32: 837-843. PMID: 24881514, DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2014.03.033.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHospital admission ratesEmergency departmentAdmission ratesClinical characteristicsED visitsHospital factorsClinical factorsAdult ED visitsUS emergency departmentsHospital teaching statusCross-sectional analysisPatient characteristicsHospital admissionHospital variationPatientsTeaching statusHospitalED dataVisitsRepresentative sampleAdultsRural locationsAdmissionFactorsNational variations