December 3rd, 2012
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: December 3rd
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include the association between aldosterone-antagonist therapy and mortality and readmission among patients with HF and reduced EF, warfarin therapy after bioprosthetic AVR, and more.
November 7th, 2012
Science, with a Little Bit of Flash
Tariq Ahmad, MD, MPH
At a stirring Late-Breaking Clinical Trials session when researchers present possibly ground-breaking research, a fellow wonders what happens behind the scenes.
November 6th, 2012
Breadth vs. Depth at AHA
Tariq Ahmad, MD, MPH
A tight focus works well for this fellow with a special interest in heart failure, but if you don’t have a subspecialty, does going for breadth work better?
October 22nd, 2012
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: October 22nd
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include favorable lipid-level trends in U.S. adults, an angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitor for patients with HF and preserved systolic ejection fraction, and a long-term safety comparison of the Zotarolimus-eluting and Sirolimus-eluting coronary stents.
June 11th, 2012
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: June 11th
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include two studies of prognosis: troponin and mortality after non-cardiac surgery and predictors of heart-failure mortality.
May 21st, 2012
Selections from Richard Lehman’s Literature Review: Week of May 21st
Richard Lehman, BM, BCh, MRCGP
This week’s topics include warfarin vs. aspirin for stroke prevention in HF, CVD risks and azithromycin, coffee’s benefits, the old news that statins work, the question of HDL-C, abdominal aortic aneurysm, omega-3 fatty acid supplements, and Abbott’s methods for staying ahead with fenofibrate prescriptions.
March 15th, 2012
Hospital Readmission Calculator? There’s an App for That!
Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM
Want to calculate the risk of readmission for MI, heart failure, or pneumonia? There’s an App for that!
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 […]
August 1st, 2011
A Set of Calculators for Estimating Readmission Risk
Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM
If you are interested in a tool that estimates the readmission risk of a patient who has been hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, or pneumonia, you can find one at www.readmissionscore.org. Readmission rates are increasingly a focus of quality-of-care efforts in the U.S., including those initiated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid […]
June 16th, 2011
Case Study: Advanced Heart Failure in a Prison Inmate
Tariq Ahmad, MD, MPH and James Fang, MD
A 37-year-old prisoner with end-stage nonischemic cardiomyopathy was transferred from a local county hospital to a tertiary care center for heart failure therapy. Soon after his arrival, he developed ventricular tachycardia and cardiogenic shock. He was sent urgently to the cardiac catheterization laboratory, where he underwent placement of an intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP). Right-heart catheterization, on dobutamine […]
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