Congestive Heart Failure
Reports outline congestive heart failure study results from B.K. Nallamothu et al
Published in Heart Disease Weekly, January 20th, 2008
"Background-Outcomes of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and congestive heart failure (CHF) at specialty cardiac hospitals are uncertain. Methods and Results-From 2003 Medicare data, we used hierarchical regression to calculate 30-day standardized mortality ratios and risk-standardized mortality rates for AMI and CHF at 16 cardiac and 121 peer general hospitals in 15 healthcare markets," scientists in the United States report.
"We then compared cardiac and general hospitals by determining (1) the proportion of facilities with statistically higher, no different, or lower than expected mortality based on 95% interval estimates of standardized mortality...
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Source: Heart Disease Weekly (2008-01-20)
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