Correlation of the agency for health care policy and research congestive heart failure admission guideline with mortality: Peer review organization voluntary hospital association initiative to decrease events (PROVIDE) for congestive heart failure

Study objective: We quantify patient risk as related to the presence or absence of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) congestive heart failure (CHF) hospital admission criteria. Methods: This was a retrospective observational cohort study at 12 acute care hospitals examining cons...

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Published in:Annals of emergency medicine 1999-10, Vol.34 (4), p.429-437
Main Authors: Graff, Louis, Orledge, Jeff, Radford, Martha J, Wang, Yun, Petrillo, Marcia, Maag, Rachel
Format: Article
Language:English
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Aged
Biological and medical sciences
Cardiology. Vascular system
Decision Making
Female
Heart
Heart Failure - mortality
Heart failure, cardiogenic pulmonary edema, cardiac enlargement
Humans
Logistic Models
Male
Medical sciences
Patient Admission - standards
Peer Review, Health Care
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Retrospective Studies
Risk Assessment
United States - epidemiology
United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Summary:Study objective: We quantify patient risk as related to the presence or absence of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) congestive heart failure (CHF) hospital admission criteria. Methods: This was a retrospective observational cohort study at 12 acute care hospitals examining consecutive patients with the final primary diagnosis of CHF. Trained record abstractors blinded to outcome extracted 386 data elements, including 6 AHCPR admission criteria: (1) pulmonary edema (determined by radiograph) or severe respiratory distress (respiration>40 breaths/min), (2) hypoxia (oxygen saturation
ISSN:0196-0644
1097-6760
DOI:10.1016/S0196-0644(99)80043-2