The AJMC® Heart Failure compendium is a comprehensive resource for clinical news and expert insights for the chronic condition in which the heart doesn't pump enough blood due to damaged heart muscle.
April 17th 2024
Patients who responded positively to shunt treatment experienced more beneficial changes in their heart's structure and function compared with nonresponders.
Study Answers Longstanding Question About Metformin After Heart Attack
April 1st 2014Metformin, the go-to drug for patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), may help control glycated hemoglobin (A1C) levels, but it does not help prevent heart failure in heart attack patients who do not have the disease, according to a new study from the Netherlands.
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Florida Healthcare Collaborative Offers Road Map For Creating Partnerships to Contain Costs
December 17th 2013PLAINSBORO, N.J. From leveraging their joint buying power to better deployment of a hard-to-find pediatric liver transplant surgeon, two large healthcare systems in Florida are seeing the benefits of sharing resources on a bigger scale, according to Kavita Patel, MD, of the Brookings Institution, and her co-authors who write in the inaugural issue of The American Journal of Accountable Care.
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Broad Approach May be Better for Reducing Readmissions, Study Suggests
November 26th 2013As the CMS begins the second year of a penalty program for preventable hospital readmissions required by the healthcare reform law, new research indicates that hospitals fare better when they focus on patient care more generally rather than targeting specific conditions, such heart failure, or specific timeframes, such as 30 days post-discharge.
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Paul Hauptman, MD, Addresses Patient-Focused Outcomes in Heart Failure
March 10th 2013Paul Hauptman, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Health Management & Policy, School of Public Health, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, says that clinicians tend to focus on non-patient focused outcomes.
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Telemonitoring With Case Management for Seniors With Heart Failure
An Internet-based telehealth intervention for elderly heart failure patients found no discernible incremental impact on morbidity or mortality compared with case management alone.
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