Percentage of Heart Failure patients who are referred to an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation or disease management program within 30 days of discharge.

Number of Heart Failure patients who are referred to an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation or disease management program within 30 days of discharge.

Number of Heart Failure patients discharged (inferred).

American Heart Association's GWTG-HF registry, part of a voluntary, inhospital quality improvement initiative started in 2005. Patients are eligible for inclusion in the registry if they are hospitalised and HF is the primary discharge diagnosis. Institutions submit information either on consecutive patients or by random sample (a sample is permitted if the institution had >75 cases per year). Clinical data are abstracted in compliance with the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organisations and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services standards.

Get with the Guidelines Heart Failure Program and Awards. Not publicly reported based on available evidence

DeVore AD, Cox M, Eapen ZJ, Yancy CW, Bhatt DL, Heidenreich PA, Peterson ED, Fonarow GC, Hernandez AF. Temporal Trends and Variation in Early Scheduled Follow-Up After a Hospitalization for Heart Failure: Findings from Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure. Circ Heart Fail. 2016 Jan;9(1):e002344. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.115.002344. PMID: 26754624.

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