Effect of a quality improvement intervention for acute heart failure in South India: An interrupted time series study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although quality improvement interventions for acute heart failure have been studied in high-income countries, none have been studied in low- or middle-income country settings where quality of care can be lower. We evaluated the effect of a quality improvement toolkit on process of care measures and clinical outcomes in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure in 8 hospitals in Kerala, India utilizing an interrupted time series design from February 2018 to August 2018.

Methods

The quality improvement toolkit included checklists, audit-and-feedback reports, and patient education materials. The primary outcome was rate of discharge guideline-directed medical therapy for patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction. We used mixed effect logistic re

SUBMITTER: Agarwal A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8059774 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature