April 30th, 2012
Certain Hospital Management Strategies Associated With Higher MI Survival Rates
Betsy Bradley, Ph.D. and John Ryan, MD
John Ryan interviews Elizabeth Bradley about the hospital management strategies that can reduce 30-day risk-standardized mortality rates for acute myocardial infarction.
February 15th, 2012
Mortality-Risk Calculators for AMI and Heart Failure Patients
Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM
Two mortality-risk calculators – one for patients with acute MI and another for those with heart failure – are now available for free at www.mortalityscore.org. The calculators are based on risk models produced by our research group at Yale for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The models are derived from Medicare administrative-claims […]
January 17th, 2012
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Weekly Review: Week of January 16th
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include acute MI and potassium levels, cardiac arrest during long-distance running, the anticoagulant idrabiotaparinux, and managing hypertension in the very elderly.
NEJM Journal Watch — Recent Cardiology Articles- Sex-Based Disparity in CABG Outcomes: Are We Moving Toward Parity?
- Can Genetic and Social Risk Scores Improve Cardiac Risk Prediction?
- Extensive Ablation vs. Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Persistent Atrial Fibrillation
- Can a Novel Stent Design Improve Long-Term Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention?
- Are Angiographically-Derived Coronary Physiology Measurements Ready for Use in the Cath Lab?