Paul S Chan

..We determined rates of long-term survival and readmission among survivors of in-hospital cardiac arrest and examined whether these outcomes differed according to demographic characteristics and neurologic status at discharge...

..Because a primary action of rapid response teams is to transfer patients to the ICU, their ability to reduce hospital-wide code rates and mortality remains unknown...

..Racial differences in survival have not been previously studied after in-hospital cardiac arrest, an event for which access to care is not likely to influence treatment...

..Delays to defibrillation are associated with worse survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest, but the degree to which hospitals vary in defibrillation response times and hospital predictors of delays remain unknown...

..After adjustment with multivariable regression models, differences in utilization rates between whites and men widened compared with blacks and women between 1997 and 2003, a period when indications for ICD therapy have expanded...

..This study sought to assess the prognostic utility of echocardiographic dyssynchrony for health status improvement after cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT)...

..However, empirical data on the prevalence of delayed defibrillation in the United States and its effect on survival are limited...

..Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) improve survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, but data on their effectiveness in hospitalized patients are limited...

..The objective of this study was to compare the consistency in appropriate use criteria (AUC) ratings among a broad range of practicing cardiologists and the AUC Technical Panel...

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..Despite the widespread use of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the appropriateness of these procedures in contemporary practice is unknown...

..We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the effect of RRTs on reducing cardiopulmonary arrest and hospital mortality rates...

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..Accurate estimation of favorable neurological survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest could provide critical information for physicians, patients, and families...

..The extent to which diagnostic phlebotomy, a modifiable process of care, contributes to HAA is unknown...

..Whether fQRS improves patient selection for primary prevention patients eligible for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy remains unknown...

..34, 95% confidence interval 1.08 to 1.65) were independently more likely to develop moderate-severe HAA. In conclusion, increased RDW and low MCV were independent predictors of moderate-severe HAA...

..Despite advances in resuscitation care in recent years, it is not clear whether survival and neurologic function after in-hospital cardiac arrest have improved over time...

..The relationship between HAA and adverse in-hospital outcomes may be particularly relevant to hospitals' efforts to implement prevention programs, but the association between HAA and in-hospital mortality is unclear...

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..We assessed whether health status assessment with the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) predicts future costs in stable heart failure outpatients with left ventricular dysfunction after myocardial infarction...

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..To investigate the generalizabilty of this mortality reduction, we examined the effectiveness of ICDs in clinical practice...

..We sought to determine the extent to which patients with obstructive CAD in routine outpatient care are treated with statins, nonstatins, or no lipid-lowering therapy...

..The authors sought to study the characteristics and outcomes of patients with contralateral carotid artery occlusions (CCOs) undergoing elective carotid artery stenting (CAS)...

..To investigate the generalizability of the reduction in mortality posed by implantable cardioverter-defibrillators, we examined the effectiveness of defibrillators as applied in routine medical practice...

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..This study examined the association between insurance status and physicians' adherence with providing evidence-based treatments for coronary artery disease (CAD)...

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..The objective of this study was to assess if patients have differences in survival prognosis based on the reasons for an indeterminate MTWA result...

..Although these findings need further validation, they suggest that rescreening with MTWA may not need to be performed more frequently than once every 2 years...

..Our findings suggest important opportunities for practice-level improvement in stroke prevention for outpatients with AF and define a benchmark treatment rate before the introduction of newer anticoagulant agents...

..Angina in patients with coronary artery disease is associated with worse quality of life; however, the relationship between angina frequency and resource utilization is unknown...

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..Little is known about the effects of low health literacy among patients with heart failure, a condition that requires self-management and frequent interactions with the health care system...

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..Novel interventions that go beyond traditional dietary counseling may be needed to address continued fast food consumption after AMI in these patients...

..However, it remains unclear whether changes in CIMT that result from these therapies correlate with nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI)...

..We sought to compare the cost-effectiveness of left atrial catheter ablation (LACA), amiodarone, and rate control therapy in the management of atrial fibrillation (AF)...

..The use of vasodilators to improve long-term outcomes in asymptomatic patients with chronic aortic insufficiency (AI) is controversial...

..However, the actual benefit and cost-effectiveness of high-dose statin therapy are unknown...

..08 [1.18 to 3.66]; p = 0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Microvolt T-wave alternans is a strong and independent predictor of all-cause and arrhythmic mortality in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy...