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1. Heart Failure Patients’ Risk of Adverse Events Higher in Poor-Performing Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   February 01, 2024 - [PDF, 9 MB]) Today's Headlines: Heart Failure Patients’ Risk of Adverse Events Higher in Poor-Performing … Heart Failure Patients’ Risk of Adverse Events Higher in Poor-Performing Hospitals Patients with heart … failure admitted to hospitals with higher 30-day readmission rates and deaths from all causes have a … Patients with heart failure admitted to hospitals that perform poorly on mortality and readmission measures … Failure Patients’ Risk of Adverse Events Higher in Poor-Performing Hospitals.

2. Library of PCOR Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   April 01, 2021 - heart failure" OR "statin"). … An exact word or phrase in relation to another such phrase (e.g., "congestive heart failure" AND "statins … heart failure" AND "statin use" AND "2015"). … An exact word or phrase and the author's name (e.g., "congestive heart failure" AND "statins" AND "John … An exact word or phrase and the institution name (e.g., "congestive heart failure" AND "statins" AND

3. Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Topic Refinement - Project ID: CRDT0913 (pdf file)
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   January 01, 2020 - heart failure  HRQOL  Symptom Improvement  Patient reported outcomes, cognitive function, … Comparison of carvedilol and metoprolol on clinical outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure … Valsartan reduces the incidence of atrial fibrillation in patients with heart failure: results from … the Valsartan Heart Failure Trial (Val-HeFT). … Temporal relations of atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure and their joint influence on

4. Selected Best Practices and Suggestions for Improvement (pdf file)
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   May 20, 2016 - Failure 30-Day Mortality Rate [similar to IQI 16 Heart Failure Mortality Rate] o Pneumonia 30-Day Mortality … − Stage 4 cancer − End stage AIDS − End stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease − End stage congestive … heart failure − End stage dementia − End stage liver disease − Other _____________________ o Was … IQI 16 Heart Failure Mortality Rate • Evaluation of ejection fraction. … Failure Mortality Rate IQI 17 Acute Stroke Mortality Rate IQI 19 Hip Fracture Mortality Rate IQI

5. AHRQ's RED Toolkit Helps Lower Readmissions in Dignity Health Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2015 - Mary’s Medical Center, a 389-bed trauma center in Long Beach, introduced RED in December 2013 for heart … failure patients and saw readmissions for this population drop to 7.7 percent as of July 2014 from 22.2 … Mary’s Medical Center also introduced RED with heart failure patients, which helped the facility reduce … After seeing the success of the RED Toolkit in reducing readmissions among heart failure patients, officials … After seeing initial success with heart failure patients, the hospital instituted nearly all RED Toolkit

6. Major Study Finds Significant National Patient Safety Improvement | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   July 01, 2022 - Researchers found significant decreases in in-hospital adverse event rates for heart attack, heart failure … data for 2010 and 2019, adverse event rates fell 36 percent for heart attack patients, 31 percent for heart … failure patients, 39 percent for pneumonia patients, 36 percent for major surgery patients, but were … diminished for all five patient groups, as follows: 41percent for heart attack patients, 27 percent for heart … failure patients, 36 percent for pneumonia patients, 41percent for major surgery patients, and 18 percent

7. C1 Prioritization Worksheet (xls file)
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   July 01, 2016 - Selected Conditions Quality Indicator Composite Conditions Composite IQI 15 AMI Mortality   IQI 16 Heart … Failure Mortality IQI 17 Acute Stroke Mortality IQI 18 Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage Mortality

8. For American Heart Month, AHRQ Offers New Tools for Expanding Cardiac Rehabilitation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   February 01, 2023 - lower among “minority” populations—a particularly urgent concern when considering that the risk of heart … failure for Black men and women is 70 percent and 50 percent higher, respectively, than for White men

9. Data Infographics | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   March 01, 2024 - Costs, 2020 Adult Opioid Fills by Race Expenditures for COVID-19 Care in 2020 Heart … Failure Admissions Down but Hospital Deaths Higher in First Year of COVID-19 COVID-19’s Impact … Heart Disease Declining Hospital Costs for Seniors with Traditional Medicare 2020 Heart … Failure: Most Common and Expensive Reason for Preventable Hospital Stays Opioid Outpatient Prescriptions

10. C1 Prioritization Matrix (xls file)
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    July 01, 2016 - 1 4 Y Y Y Y Y IQI 15 AMI Mortality   6.5 5.0 16 $38,000 $ 608,000 N 3 2 2 Y Y Y Y Y IQI 16 Heart … Failure Mortality 2.0 2.6 15 $18,927 $ 283,905 N 2 1 1 Y Y Y Y Y IQI 17 Acute Stroke Mortality

11. Assessing the Impact of Value-Based Purchasing Programs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2022 - Program (HRRP), launched in 2013, levied financial penalties on hospitals with unplanned readmissions for congestive … heart failure, acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), and pneumonia.

12. Mourning the Loss of Deputy Director David Meyers, M.D. | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2023 - Year of COVID-19 A new Data Spotlight (PDF, 1 MB) from AHRQ shows that hospital admissions for heart … failure decreased by 15 percent from 2019 to 2020, while deaths from heart failure more than doubled

13. Blood Pressure Control Evidence and Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2021 - Control Evidence and Resources High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart attack, heart … failure, stroke and chronic kidney disease.

14. What Health Care Quality Measures Will You Report? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2018 - For example, CalHospitalCompare’s Web site has information about heart attack, heart bypass surgery, heart … failure, maternity, pneumonia, other conditions and other surgery.

15. Organizing Quality Measures To Reduce Information Overload | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2016 - Domain (e.g., safety, effectiveness, timeliness) Organizing Measures by Disease or Condition (e.g., congestive … heart failure, asthma, cancer) Organizing Measures by Type (e.g., structure, process, outcome, patient

16. Resources for Women’s Health | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2018 - Heart failure. Hypertensive heart disease. Inflammatory heart disease.

17. Examples of Physician Quality Measures for Consumers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2019 - Education and counseling for patients with certain conditions (e.g., hepatitis, heart failure).

18. Strategy 6C: OpenNotes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2020 - For example, a patient whose chart includes an unfamiliar reference to "congestive heart failure" might

19. AHRQ Data Spotlight: Hypertension Control in Health Resources and Services Administration Health Centers (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2020 - 1 in 3 adults in the United States.1 Although hypertension is a major contributing risk factor for heart … failure, heart attack, stroke, chronic kidney disease, and death,2 only about half of those with the

20. Large-Scale Program To Reduce Heart Disease Risk Could Have Meaningful Health Benefits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2023 - Healthcare Increases Infection Risk Following Ventricular Device Implantation, Study Finds Among heart … failure patients who have durable ventricular assist devices (VADs) implanted, healthcare-associated