Search results for "Heart failure"
March 2, 2022
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/03/02/
ARBs may offer same efficacy, better tolerability than ACE inhibitors in patients without heart failure
Authors of the meta-analysis noted that treatment of cardiovascular disease changed considerably during the decade between ACE trials, which were conducted before 2000, and ARB trials, which were conducted after 2000.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/01/13/5.htm
13 Jan 2016
Updating heart failure documentation
There are important differences between the 2021 universal definition of heart failure and ICD-10-CM terminology.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/27/updating-heart-failure-documentation.htm
27 Jul 2022
Higher-intensity care setting may not be associated with early survival in acute heart failure patients
Survival was higher at 1 year among those initially admitted to the ICU versus the wards, but no survival difference was seen between low-risk patients admitted to the wards versus discharged from the ED, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/08/03/3.htm
3 Aug 2016
April 27, 2022
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April 13, 2022
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Better heart failure outcomes associated with readmission to original hospital
Patients readmitted to a different hospital were more likely to be younger, to be male, to live in a rural area, to have been discharged more recently, to have had their initial admission at a teaching hospital, and to arrive at the hospital via ambulance.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/05/17/3.htm
17 May 2017
February 21, 2024
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https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/21/
COPD, heart failure, MI patients with marginal need for ICU had no better survival there
ICU admission was also associated with greater hospital costs for heart failure and acute myocardial infarction, but not chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, according to the retrospective study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/03/01/3.htm
1 Mar 2017
January 3, 2024
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https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/03/