Continuing Education

Background: Coronary artery disease associates with increasing age and correlates with CABG being more common in elderly. However, prognostic data

Background: Sepsis-induced myocardial dysfunction with the resultant cardiomyopathy carries a high risk of mortality. We aimed to study the risk

Background: Oral anticoagulants are indicated in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) at elevated thromboembolic risk. AF is often diagnosed during

Background: The scarcity of large-scale trends data on young-onset stroke prompted us to explore the difference in stroke hospitalization and

Background: Regional quality improvement collaboratives may provide one solution to improving cardiac rehabilitation (CR) participation through performance benchmarking and provider

Background: Medication non-compliance (MNC) is both a health and an economic burden. Considering a paucity of large-scale contemporary data, we

Background: Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program has focused on reducing the readmission rate in patients admitted for heart failure exacerbations.

Significant differences in the clinical presentation and outcomes of cardiovascular diseases in men and woman have been described in the

Background: Cardiovascular registries are built through expert abstraction of summary clinical information often represented as binary flags used to define

Introduction: Real-world 12-month outcomes of sacubitril/valsartan (sac/val) vs. ACEi or ARB use among patients with HFrEF (EF < 40%) through