Rethinking the Focus of Heart Failure Quality Measures

Affiliations

¹ From Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
² From Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia. mariell.jessup@uphs.upenn.edu.

Editorial

E Wilson Grandin et al. Circulation. 2015.

. 2015 Oct 6;132(14):1307-10.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.018692. Epub 2015 Aug 27.

¹ From Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
² From Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia. mariell.jessup@uphs.upenn.edu.

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Keywords: Editorials; guidelines; heart failure; outcome assessment; quality indicators.

Comment on

Medication Initiation Burden Required to Comply With Heart Failure Guideline Recommendations and Hospital Quality Measures.
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