- ►annals.org [PDF] AD Auerbach, MB Hamel, RB Davis, AF Connors … - Annals of internal medicine, 2000 - Am Coll Physicians Andrew D. Auerbach, MD, MPH; Mary Beth Hamel, MD, MPH; Roger B. Davis, ScD;
Alfred F. Connors Jr., MD; Carol Regueiro, MD; Norman Desbiens, MD; Lee Goldman,
MD, MPH; Robert M. Califf, MD; Neal V. Dawson, MD; Neil Wenger, MD; ... Cited by 94 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►chestpubs.org EF Philbin, HFC Weil, TA Erb, PL Jenkins - Chest, 1999 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org Patients, measurements, and results: Two thousand four hundred fifty-four
patients with CHF were identified and followed up for 6 months after hospital
discharge. Patients who were not treated by a cardiologist (group I; n = ... Cited by 86 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
EF Philbin, PL Jenkins - American Heart Journal, 2000 - Elsevier Background The management of heart failure (HF) by cardiologists may be better
than that of other physicians in that cardiologists' treatment choices more
frequently conform with published guidelines and the results of clinical ... Cited by 60 - Related articles - All 7 versions
SE Reis, R Holubkov, D Edmundowicz, DM … - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 1997 - Elsevier Background. Congestive heart failure is the leading diagnosis-related group
(DRG) discharge diagnosis in the United States and accounts for an estimated
annual hospital cost in excess of $7 billion. The clinical impact of ... Cited by 218 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
OS Indridason, CJ Coffman, EZ Oddone - American Heart Journal, 2003 - canadiancpd.medscape.com Background: Implementation of the complex treatment strategies that have been
shown to improve survival of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) may
require certain expertise. We wanted to examine the association between ... Cited by 54 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 13 versions
KJ Harjai, LM Boulos, FW Smart, T Turgut, … - The American journal of cardiology, 1998 - Elsevier In 614 consecutive hospitalizations with the primary discharge diagnosis of
diagnosis-related group (DRG) 127 (heart failure and shock), we sought to assess
the effect of caregiver specialty (generalist, n = 217; cardiologist, n = ... Cited by 25 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
ME Edep, NB Shah, IM Tateo, BM Massie - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 1997 - Elsevier Methods. We surveyed physicians concerning their management of patients with
CHF. The results were analyzed in multivariate models to determine the relation
of diagnostic and treatment approaches to physician specialty, time since ... Cited by 195 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►ahajournals.org P Jong, Y Gong, PP Liu, PC Austin, DS Lee, … - Circulation, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc Methods and Results— Using administrative data, we monitored 38 702
consecutive patients with first-time hospitalization for heart failure in
Ontario, Canada, between April 1994 and March 1996 and examined differences ... Cited by 113 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►onlinejacc.org M Ansari, M Alexander, A Tutar, D Bello, BM … - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2003 - Elsevier This was a retrospective cohort study of incident HF identified between 1996 and
1997 in a staff model health maintenance organization. Cardiology care was
defined as ≥2 visits or ≥25% of total medical outpatient visits to ... Cited by 67 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 25 versions
AS Go, RK Rao, KW Dauterman, BM Massie - The American journal of medicine, 2000 - Elsevier RESULTS: Twenty-four articles met our criteria for inclusion (including eight
that involved knowledge or self-reported practices, 14 that described actual
practice patterns, and six that measured clinical outcomes). Cardiologists ... Cited by 70 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions