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Congestive Heart Failure

More than half a million new cases of congestive heart failure are diagnosed annually in the United States alone. RAND researchers have examined several aspects of this condition, including the role of managed care for heart failure patients, pain management, and quality of care.

Journal Article
Visualization of Electronic Health Record Data for Decision-Making in Diabetes and Congestive Heart Failure
The aim of this study is to study the impact of graphical representation of health record data on physician decision-making to inform the design of health information technology.
Dec 22, 2020
Journal Article
Calcium Intake and Cardiovascular Disease Risk: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Calcium intake from foods or supplements at levels within recommended ranges is not associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease among healthy adults.
Nov 17, 2016
Journal Article
Impact of Incident Diabetes on Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease According to Statin Use History Among Postmenopausal Women
Regardless of statin use, postmenopausal women with new-onset diabetes had a significantly increased risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Oct 18, 2016
Journal Article
Populations and Interventions for Palliative and End-of-Life Care: A Systematic Review
This evidence review found that palliative care improves outcomes for cancer, dementia, congestive heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Sep 12, 2016
Journal Article
The Future as a Series of Transitions: Qualitative Study of Heart Failure Patients and Their Informal Caregivers
Patients and caregivers view heart failure as a series of transitions, including the shock of first being diagnosed; learning to adjust to life with heart failure; reframing and taking back control of one's life; and understanding and accepting that death is inevitable.
May 1, 2016
Journal Article
Differences in Severity at Admission for Heart Failure Between Rural and Urban Patients: The Value of Adding Laboratory Results to Administrative Data
Laboratory test data provide insight on clinical severity and practice patterns with respect to treating heart failure beyond what is available in administrative discharge data.
Apr 29, 2016
Journal Article
Effectiveness of Remote Patient Monitoring After Discharge of Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure: The Better Effectiveness After Transition–heart Failure (BEAT-HF) Randomized Clinical Trial
To evaluate the effectiveness of a care transition intervention using remote patient monitoring in reducing 180-day all-cause readmissions among a broad population of older adults hospitalized with HF.
Feb 18, 2016
Journal Article
The Relationship of Cardiovascular Disease to Physical Functioning in Women Surviving to Age 80 and Above in the Women's Health Initiative
Women's Health Initiative participants aged 80 years or older at the time of self-reporting PF (RAND SF-36) were studied in relationship to CVD diagnosis, whether present at study baseline (1993-1998) or diagnosed during follow-up through 2012.
Feb 9, 2016
Journal Article
Challenges in the Use of Administrative Data for Heart Failure Services Research
This study examines the use of administrative data routinely collected when patients interact with the healthcare system.
Jan 18, 2016
Research Brief
Continuity of Care and the Cost of Treating Chronic Disease
Modest improvements in continuity of care correlate with sizable reductions in service use, complications, and costs for Medicare patients with congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Jul 16, 2014
Journal Article
Pscanner: Patient-Centered Scalable National Network for Effectiveness Research
This article describes the patient-centered Scalable National Network for Effectiveness Research (pSCANNER), which is part of the recently formed PCORnet, a national network composed of learning healthcare systems and patient-powered research networks funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).
Jul 1, 2014
News Release
Improving Continuity of Care for Elderly Patients with Chronic Diseases Cuts Costs and Complications
Among a large group of Medicare patients, even modest improvements in the continuity of care for those with diabetes, congestive heart failure, or emphysema were associated with sizable reductions in use of hospital emergency departments and hospitalizations.
Mar 17, 2014
Journal Article
Improving Continuity of Care for Elderly Patients with Chronic Diseases Cuts Costs and Complications
Among a large group of Medicare patients, even modest improvements in the continuity of care for those with diabetes, congestive heart failure, or emphysema were associated with sizable reductions in use of hospital emergency departments and hospitalizations.
Mar 17, 2014
Journal Article
Mortality Among High-Risk Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Admitted to U.S. Teaching-Intensive Hospitals in July: A Retrospective Observational Study
High-risk acute myocardial infarction patients experience similar mortality in teaching- and non–teaching-intensive hospitals in July, but lower mortality in teaching-intensive hospitals in May.
Dec 1, 2013
Journal Article
Benefits of Slowing the Aging Process
Most medical research focuses on fighting individual disease. But delayed aging could boost life expectancy by more than two years and yield more than $7 trillion over 50 years. Greater investment in research to delay aging could be a very efficient way to prevent disease, improve public health, and extend healthy life.
Oct 1, 2013
Journal Article
Patient Sharing Among Physicians and Costs of Care: A Network Analytic Approach to Care Coordination Using Claims Data
Patients treated by sets of physicians who share high numbers of patients tend to have lower costs.
Mar 1, 2013
Journal Article
Quantifying the Value of Personalized Medicines: Evidence from COX-2 Inhibitors
Developing a conceptual framework for estimating the value of personalized medicines shows two sources of value: a market-expansion effect, and a market-contraction effect due to discontinuation of treatment by persons unresponsive to treatment.
Jan 1, 2013
Journal Article
Today's 'Meaningful Use' Standard for Medication Orders by Hospitals May Save Few Lives; Later Stages May Do More
Current federal standards for hospital "meaningful use" of health information technology--which requires electronic medication orders for 30 percent of eligible patients--are probably too low to reduce deaths from heart failure and heart attack among hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries.
Oct 1, 2011
Journal Article
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group on Emergency Department Management of Acute Heart Failure: Research Challenges and Opportunities
This paper presents research recommendations from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group on emergency department management of acute heart failure.
Jul 1, 2010
Journal Article
Heart Failure: The Hidden Problem of Pain
Although dyspnea and fatigue are hallmark symptoms of heart failure (HF), the burden of pain may be underrecognized. This study assessed pain in HF and identified contributing factors.
Jan 1, 2009

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RAND Topic:
Congestive Heart Failure

Topic Synonyms:
CHF

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