Garbage in, gospel out: ignoring goals of care when assessing heart failure quality metrics

Circ Heart Fail. 2015 May;8(3):415-6. doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.115.002103.

Authors

Hao A Tran¹, Eric D Adler²

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, The University of California, San Diego, La Jolla.
² From the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, The University of California, San Diego, La Jolla. [email protected].

PMID: 25991802
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.115.002103

No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; guideline adherence; heart failure.

Publication types

Editorial
Comment

MeSH terms

Female
Heart Failure / therapy*
Hospitalization*
Humans
Male
Patient Care Planning / standards*
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / standards*
Quality Indicators, Health Care / standards*
Resuscitation Orders*