Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes for Patients With Heart Failure at Hospitals Caring for a High Proportion of Black Adults: Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Black adults with heart failure (HF) disproportionately experience higher population-level mortality than White adults with HF. Whether quality of care for HF differs at hospitals with high proportions of Black patients compared with other hospitals is unknown.

Objective

To compare quality and outcomes for patients with HF at hospitals with high proportions of Black patients vs other hospitals.

Design, setting, and participants

Patients hospitalized for HF at Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) HF sites from January 1, 2016, through December 1, 2019. These data were analyzed from May 2022 through November 2022.

Exposures

Hospitals caring for high proportions of Black patients.

Main outcomes and measures

Quality of HF care based on 14 evidence-based

SUBMITTER: Diamond J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10116383 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature