BACKGROUND: The lack of automated tools for measuring care quality limits the implementation of a national program to assess guideline-directed care in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).
BACKGROUND: Surgical mechanical ventricular assistance and cardiac replacement therapies, although life-saving in many heart failure (HF) patients, remain high-risk. Despite this, the difficulty in timely identification of medical therapy nonresponde...
OBJECTIVES: This study sought to develop models for predicting mortality and heart failure (HF) hospitalization for outpatients with HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) in the TOPCAT (Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with...