Hospital Heart Failure Medical Therapy Score and Associated Clinical Outcomes and Costs.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

A composite score for guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) for patients with heart failure (HF) is associated with increased survival. Whether hospital performance according to a GDMT score is associated with a broader array of clinical outcomes at lower costs is unknown.

Objectives

To evaluate hospital variability in GDMT score at discharge, 90-day risk-standardized clinical outcomes and costs, and associations between hospital GDMT score and clinical outcomes and costs.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a retrospective cohort study conducted from January 2015 to September 2019. Included for analysis were patients hospitalized for HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) in the Get With the Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry, a national hospi

SUBMITTER: Polsinelli VB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11425195 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature