Developing Benchmarks in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in a Tertiary, Academic Medical Center.

ABSTRACT: Benchmarks of clinical management are essential for improving the quality of care. However, the lack of established quality metrics for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) contributes to practice heterogeneity. We assessed our center's diagnostic practices, therapeutic practices, and risk-adjusted survival patterns over time for the purpose of establishing quality benchmarks. We analyzed the demographics, clinical characteristics, and diagnostic evaluation of 702 PAH patients enrolled between 1999 and 2019. We examined outcomes in this cohort, including an analysis of risk stratification, therapeutic practice patterns, hospitalizations, organ transplant, and survival. Initial diagnostic workup of incident PAH cases demonstrated excellent completion of echocardiographic (99%) and pulmonar

SUBMITTER: Kholdani CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11875057 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature