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101. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - The authors examined the use of heart failure medications before and after left ventricular assist devices … Use of heart failure medical therapies among patients with left ventricular assist devices: insights … failure. … The potential impact of expanding cardiac rehabilitation in heart failure. … heart failure but not among those hospitalized for pneumonia or conditions requiring surgery.

102. Data Collection Devices Popular With Consumers Might Help Control Some Chronic Conditions | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2021 - health data such as heart rate and blood pressure might help patients control coronary artery disease, heart … failure and asthma. … While possible positive effects were found for coronary artery disease, heart failure and asthma, impacts

103. Enhancing Care Coordination | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/takeheart/training/care-coordination/index.html
     April 01, 2023 - Failure Patients in Your Cardiac Rehab Program Practical Methods for Improving Care Coordination … Failure Patients in Your Cardiac Rehab Program Hicham Skali , MD, MSc, TAKEheart Principal Investigator … failure patients. … Failure Patients in Your Cardiac Rehabilitation Program (59:22) Slides: TAKEheart Affinity Group … : Enhancing Care for Heart Failure Patients in Cardiac Rehabilitation (PDF, 899 KB)

104. 2012 Updated Recommendations for Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2017 - recommendation to use biologic agents in patients with comorbidities (e.g., hepatitis, malignancy, or congestive … heart failure) who qualify for more aggressive treatment, including: The potential use of etanercept … Not using anti-TNF biologic agents in patients with congestive heart failure who have a New York Heart

105. A Future Vision for Better Diagnostic Outcomes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2024 - Consider the hospitalist admitting the patient with congestive heart failure and, unbeknownst to them … overload and can appropriately engage in dual-process thinking; they realize that their patient has both heart … failure and multifocal pneumonia.

106. TAKEheart Learning Community Webinars | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2022 - for addressing the needs of traditionally underserved populations, including women and patients with heart … failure. … Bryant , BSN RN, Cardiac Rehab/Heart Failure Nurse Manager, Prairie Heart Institute at HSHS St. … Enhancing Care for Heart Failure Patients in Your Cardiac Rehab Program Hicham Skali , MD, MSc, TAKEheart … failure patients.

107. Fundamental Concepts for Understanding Probability | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2022 - For example, an 80-year-old man with hypertension and lower extremity edema who is worried about heart … failure asks his primary care provider for a brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) test. … The clinician might explain the low likelihood of heart failure, the impact of results of a BNP test, … failure. … If we do a BNP test and it’s abnormal, that chance of heart failure would rise to about 8 percent.”  

108. Fundamental Concepts for Understanding Probability | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/probabilistic-thinking2.html
     September 01, 2022 - For example, an 80-year-old man with hypertension and lower extremity edema who is worried about heart … failure asks his primary care provider for a brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) test. … The clinician might explain the low likelihood of heart failure, the impact of results of a BNP test, … failure. … If we do a BNP test and it’s abnormal, that chance of heart failure would rise to about 8 percent.”  

109. Novant Health Boosts Patient Understanding and Outcomes with Health Literacy Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2014 - Heart failure patients at the system's Presbyterian Medical Center were given a test to assess whether … in understanding contributed to a 44 percent decrease in hospital readmissions at Presbyterian for congestive … heart failure patients, he said, adding that "patient satisfaction jumped in all of the demonstration

110. Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - patients on the project team Goal: Revise patient education materials that are provided to patients with congestive … heart failure when they are discharged from the hospital.

111. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - For example, congestive heart failure was related to lack of achievement of cholesterol management goals … failure or other acute co-morbidities: cohort study of older patients with heart failure. … failure or other acute co-morbidities. … failure or other acute co-morbidities. … failure or other acute co-morbidities: cohort study of older patients with heart failure.

112. MONAHRQ Measures List (xls file)
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     March 06, 2015 - Failure Mortality Rate How often patients die in the hospital after heart failure Yes 0358 1.0 IQI … one of six problems: heart attack, heart failure, stroke, internal bleeding, hip fracture, or pneumonia … Failure Admission Rate How often patients are admitted to a hospital for heart failure Yes 0277 1.0 … failure (HF) 30-day mortality rate Dying within 30-days after getting care in the hospital for heart … failure (HF) 30-day readmission rate Returning to the hospital after getting care for heart failure

113. 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

114. New AHRQ Views Blog Post: Seizing Opportunities in Three Essential Areas To Improve Patient Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2019 - For Medicare Heart Failure Patients, Hospital Readmission Risks Are Highest Immediately Following Nursing … For Medicare Heart Failure Patients, Hospital Readmission Risks Are Highest Immediately Following Nursing … Home Discharge Patients with heart failure were more likely to go back to the hospital within two … failure 30 days after discharge from a nursing home in 2012-2015.  … The results are meaningful because 1 in 5 Medicare patients has heart failure.

115. How CMS Measures the "30-Day All Cause Rehospitalization Rate" on the Hospital Compare Web Site | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2013 - Predicted readmission is the number of readmissions (following discharge for heart attack, heart failure … Expected readmission is the number of readmissions (following discharge for heart attack, heart failure … model also adjusts readmission rate results for small hospitals or hospitals with few heart attack, heart … failure, or pneumonia cases in a given reference period.

116. How CMS Measures the "30-Day All Cause Rehospitalization Rate" on the Hospital Compare Web Site | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2013 - Predicted readmission is the number of readmissions (following discharge for heart attack, heart failure … Expected readmission is the number of readmissions (following discharge for heart attack, heart failure … model also adjusts readmission rate results for small hospitals or hospitals with few heart attack, heart … failure, or pneumonia cases in a given reference period.

117. Table 8A: National HCBS Population | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2023 - 1,744 3,635   Min 816 s s s s   Max 9,211 7,982 10,309 16,438 s Congestive … Heart Failure 4,750 7,236 5,029 2,658 4,815   Min 1,287 s s s s   Max … 2,319 1,267 668 s   Max 6,516 11,021 6,679 14,357 7,727 7,740 10,370 Congestive … Heart Failure 3,750 5,940 2,630 7,390 9,928 4,836 6,345   Min 1,060 1,274

118. Table 8B: Dually Eligible HCBS Participants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2023 - 3,865   Min 1,063 s s s s   Max 9,973 8,539 8,955 30,000 s Congestive … Heart Failure 5,565 8,374 5,800 2,891 5,656   Min 1,796 s s s s   Max … 2,362 1,288 905 s   Max 8,334 11,696 6,435 14,482 7,905 8,571 11,072 Congestive … Heart Failure 4,390 6,715 2,546 7,529 10,071 5,534 7,348   Min 1,420 1,666

119. Table 8C: Medicaid-Only HCBS Participants | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2023 - 1,538 2,993   Min s s s s s   Max 7,258 9,964 8,144 39,098 s Congestive … Heart Failure 2,032 4,937 3,036 1,846 2,466   Min s s s s s   Max … 350 s s 644 s   Max 4,393 9,389 7,341 29,268 6,324 6,140 9,771 Congestive … Heart Failure 2,248 3,378 2,734 4,613 5,307 2,914 2,884   Min s 709 s s

120. Table 8E: Serious Mental Illness Subpopulation | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     February 01, 2023 - 2,533 4,065   Min s s s s s   Max 13,360 15,789 19,048 14,679 s Congestive … Heart Failure 2,913 4,954 4,278 2,463 2,966   Min s s s s s   Max … 2,475 s s s   Max 13,055 15,821 12,381 25,806 19,672 12,818 14,829 Congestive … Heart Failure 2,488 4,017 2,154 7,727 13,422 3,300 3,933   Min s 1,294 s