Temporal Trends in Patient Characteristics and Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Primary Prevention Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Placement in the United States, 2006–2010
Borne RT, Peterson PN, Greenlee R, Heidenreich PA, Wang Y, Curtis JP, Tzou WS, Varosy PD, Kremers MS, Masoudi FA. Temporal Trends in Patient Characteristics and Outcomes Among Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Primary Prevention Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Placement in the United States, 2006–2010. Circulation 2014, 130: 845-853. PMID: 25095884, DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.114.008653.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPrimary prevention ICD implantationDevice-related complicationsPatient characteristicsICD implantationICD RegistryNational Cardiovascular Data Registry ICD RegistryPrimary prevention implantable cardioverter-defibrillator placementConcomitant cardiac resynchronization therapyLeft ventricular ejection fractionImplantable cardioverter-defibrillator placementMultivariable hierarchical logistic regressionCardiac resynchronization therapy devicesCardiac resynchronization therapyVentricular ejection fractionResynchronization therapy devicesCommunity practice settingsSingle-lead deviceHierarchical logistic regressionClinical characteristicsOlder patientsEjection fractionResynchronization therapyPrimary preventionPatient populationHospital characteristics