Abstract 15287: Optimizing Guideline Directed Medical Therapy in Recently Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure in a Large Urban Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Abstract:Introduction:
A quarter of patients hospitalized for heart failure either die or are re-hospitalized within 30 days. Optimization of guideline directed medical therapy (GDMT) has been shown to decrease both mortality and hospital readmissions.
Methods:
We used an existing heart failure clinical dashboard registry at our Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital to determine the rates of hospitalization from any medical cause and GDMT prescription rates from Novemb… Show more
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