Search results for "Heart failure"
Patient-reported behavioral, economic factors predict mortality after cardiac hospitalization
Patients who reported being unemployed, retired, or unable to work due to disability at discharge from a cardiovascular hospitalization were significantly more likely to die during three-year follow up, a single-center study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/10/patient-reported-behavioral-economic-factors-predict-mortality-after-cardiac-hospitalization.htm
10 Apr 2024
Physician-specific discharge practice patterns related to LOS in heart failure
A survey administered to cardiologists and hospitalists at one hospital asked about the influence of 10 discharge readiness factors, including physical examination findings, diuretics, and kidney function, on discharge decisions.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/11/21/3.htm
21 Nov 2018
August 10, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/10/
Natriuretic peptide-guided therapy didn't reduce heart failure hospitalizations or mortality
Patients were randomized to usual care according to guidelines or heart failure therapy titrated to the goal of a target amino-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) level below 1,000 pg/mL.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/08/30/2.htm
30 Aug 2017
Use your window into heart failure
A new guideline and experts urge hospitalists to maximize heart failure therapies, but also to be aware of their costs.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/27/free/use-your-window-into-heart-failure.htm
27 Jul 2022
July 2012
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2012/07/
Door-to-diuretic time didn't affect mortality from heart failure in Korean registry
The new findings contradict those of another recent prospective study, which was conducted in Japan and found reduced mortality in heart failure patients who received diuretics within an hour, the authors noted.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/03/28/2.htm
28 Mar 2018
Cardiologist care less likely for African-Americans in ICU with heart failure, study finds
Receiving primary ICU care from a cardiologist was associated with better in-hospital survival, and this association did not differ according to patient race.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/02/2.htm
2 May 2018
February 2014
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2014/02/
Hospitalizations rose for acute decompensated heart failure in past decade
The analysis of heart failure-related hospitalizations in U.S. patients age 55 years and older between 2005 and 2014 found that only black patients showed decreased one-year mortality over time.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/03/14/3.htm
14 Mar 2018