Topic: Harlan Krumholz
Telemonitoring of patients with chronic conditions is a hot concept in the tech world. Yale cardiologist Harlan Krumholz, who led one of the studies, discusses why below. We have discovered that patients return to the hospital at a distressingly high rate - ...
Americans hospitalized for heart failure are being discharged faster, but the incidence of out-of-hospital deaths and readmissions has increased, a new study finds.. While in-hospital death rates have decreased, "the results are very mixed, and overall you could say that they are ...
Americans hospitalized for heart failure are being discharged faster, but the incidence of out-of-hospital deaths and readmissions has increased, a new study finds.. While in-hospital death rates have decreased, "the results are very mixed, and overall you could say that they are ...
12/2/2009 Print E-mail A nationwide program to get faster treatment for people with the most severe kind of heart attack has dramatically reduced the time between hospital arrival and lifesaving angioplasty.. "It is a remarkable leap in performance, a tangible improvement in ...
Trying simple steps to help patients avoid pricey, miserable rehospitalizationsTalk about unnecessary misery: One in five Medicare patients winds up back in the hospital within a month even worse, one in four patients with heart failure.A major push is under way around ...
Many hospitals don't make it onto the U.S. News & World Report list of best hospitals for heart disease but still perform well in some measurements regarding heart failure, researchers say.. "If you really want to know how a hospital compares in ...
No time is a good time to have and survive a heart attack. "Many patients at night and on weekends have very long delays," said study member Harlan Krumholz of the Yale School of Medicine.. Krumholz and his colleagues looked at records ...
The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have released new clinical performance measures on the care of patients with ST-elevation and non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction. Harlan M. Krumholz, M.D., of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., and colleagues compiled the ...
Implementation of quality improvement measures examining the efficiency of health care delivery will induce more appropriate and judicious use of health care resources, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Interdisciplinary Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research ...
For the first time, physicians and patients can directly compare hospitals' mortality outcomes for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia care using the Dept. of Health and Human Services' Hospital Compare Web site.. By measuring 30-day mortality, as opposed to in-hospital mortality, ...
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