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An intervention targeting hospital clinicians had no significant effect on time to first heart failure rehospitalization or death or quality-of-care scores among patients discharged after hospitalization for acute heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, a recent trial found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/08/04/3.htm
4 Aug 2021
March 6, 2024
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Women hospitalized for heart failure may have lower quality of life than men
Women and men with acute heart failure had similar clinical outcomes and risk of mortality and rehospitalization, but there were differences in therapy and women reported lower health-related quality of life, a retrospective analysis of a trial found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/03/17/3.htm
17 Mar 2021
November 16, 2022
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Heart failure may be missed despite frequent health care contacts before hospitalization
A Canadian cohort study found that patients with acute heart failure had more outpatient physician visits, hospitalizations for unrelated conditions, and ED visits before index hospitalization than those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or stable heart failure.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/11/18/3.htm
18 Nov 2020
New tool uses NT-proBNP plus clinical characteristics to diagnosis acute heart failure
The accuracy of using guideline-recommended thresholds of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) alone to diagnose acute heart failure varied by patient age and other characteristics, including body mass index and renal impairment, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/22/new-tool-uses-nt-pro-bnp-plus-clinical-characteristics-to-diagnosis-acute-heart-failure.htm
22 Jun 2022
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https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2020/08/26/4.htm
26 Aug 2020
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