American College of Cardiology

JUNE 25, 2024

MD, MACC discuss inpatient initiation of HF GDMT. In this interview, Stephen Greene, MD, FACC and Sidney C. Smith Jr.,

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Inpatient Article 52

The British Journal of Cardiology

MARCH 4, 2025

Inpatient monitoring revealed episodes of recurrent PMVT coinciding with transient inferior ST elevation and a distinct shark fin waveform, indicating dynamic RCA occlusion. Ambulatory electrocardiography (ECG) monitoring revealed recurrent polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (PMVT).

Chest Pain 73

Chest Pain Tachycardia Angina Arrhythmia 73

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

JANUARY 25, 2024

We also present a single-center experience implementing a systematic inpatient protocol for lipid lowering therapy for secondary prevention of ASCVD.

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Inpatient Cholesterol Cardiovascular Disease 69

Med Page Today

MARCH 14, 2024

The National Inpatient Sample (NIS. (MedPage Today) -- The American West has seen the biggest surge of cardiomyopathy-associated hospital admissions among methamphetamine users, based on 13 years of the latest available hospital admission data.

Cardiomyopathy 131

Cardiomyopathy Inpatient Hospital 131

HCPLive

APRIL 26, 2024

This discussion with Ohuabunwa was held at the ACP conference and covered inpatient geriatrics assessment tips for internal medicine physicians.

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The British Journal of Cardiology

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

To review the utility of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in the management of hospital inpatients, we performed a retrospective review of all inpatient CMR scans performed over a six-month period at a tertiary referral cardiology centre.

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Inpatient Coronary Artery Disease Outpatient Cardiomyopathy 52

American College of Cardiology

APRIL 23, 2025

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced several proposed changes to the Transforming Episode Accountability Model (TEAM) in the fiscal year 2026 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule, released April 11.

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Open Heart

APRIL 4, 2025

Patients with a delayed diagnosis were one and a half times more likely than those without a delayed diagnosis to have CV-related inpatient hospitalisations (adjusted OR: 1.65; 95% CI: 1.1 to 2.46; p=0.020).

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Inpatient Outcomes 52

HeartRhythm

MARCH 31, 2025

Due to its narrow therapeutic index, initiation is done in an inpatient setting for monitoring. Flecainide is used for pediatric arrhythmias.

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Inpatient Pediatrics Arrhythmia 40

Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

They had more inpatient complications including ventricular fibrillation and cardiac arrest (p <0.001) with longer mean lengths of stay (7 days vs. 5 days, p <0.001) and 30-day readmissions (28% vs. 22%, p<0.001). Inpatient outcomes including mortality were also worse during first readmission (7% vs. 6%, p<0.01).

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Inpatient Heart Failure Outcomes Cardiac Arrest 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Interviews were conducted with providers at spoke sites of a hub-and-spoke inpatient telestroke program. With regards to the context (hospital and system factors), providers highlighted familiarity with telehealth technologies as a facilitator to implementing inpatient telestroke, yet highlighted resource limitations in smaller facilities.

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Inpatient Nursing Innovation Education 40

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Most inpatient ICM implants were performed by vascular and interventional neurology (n=181), and ICM use for cryptogenic stroke increased by 130%. Most inpatient ICM implants were performed by vascular and interventional neurology (n=181), and ICM use for cryptogenic stroke increased by 130%. days, with 77% in 5 days and 95.5%

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Inpatient Atrial Fibrillation Stroke Strokes 40

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

National incidence was calculated, and multivariable regression was used to identify changes in incidence and outcome through time, segmented by epoch.RESULTSReview of the National Inpatient Sample identified 448 655 patients with SAH, of whom 181 590 underwent surgical aneurysm treatment.

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Inpatient Hemorrhage Aneurysm Hospital 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Percentage change in stroke admission cost adjusted for healthcare inflation between 2013-14 to 2021-22 weighted for the number in each stroke DRG was included in the analysis.Results:Between 2013 and 2022, nationwide there were a total of 2,007,005 unique stroke-related inpatient hospital claims, resulting in Medicare payments totaling $21.07

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Medicare Inpatient Hospital Stroke 40

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Background To investigate the contemporary comparative inpatient prognosis among US and Chinese patients with type A aortic dissection (TAAD). Methods Data from Chinese multi-institutional TAAD registry and the US National Inpatient Sample databases were analyzed.

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Inpatient Aortic Outcomes Hospital 52

American College of Cardiology

JUNE 5, 2025

The ACC submitted written comments on June 4 to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the fiscal year (FY) 2026 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule.

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CMS Medicaid Medicare Inpatient 40

HeartRhythm

MARCH 11, 2025

Assessment of contemporary real-world outcomes of VT ablation requires data inclusive of both inpatient and outpatient encounters. Catheter ablation is an effective therapy for ventricular tachycardia (VT) and is increasing in use.

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Outpatient Inpatient Tachycardia Ablation 40

HCPLive

APRIL 23, 2024

Shah discusses the prevalence of psychiatric illness among hospitalized patients and highlights key considerations for their management from her session at ACP.

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Inpatient Hospital 69

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

To assess time to activation, data related to inpatient stroke code activations was analyzed pre- and post-intervention. Prior to intervention, only 50% of inpatient stroke codes were activated within 10 minutes of symptom discovery. There were 61 pre-session survey responses and 39 post-session. Before the session, 56.1%

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Inpatient Stroke Strokes Education 40

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Demographics, visit data, and outcomes were collected, and 30-day outcomes were compared to inpatient IV (IP IV) diuresis from 2021 Medicare HF hospitalizations.ResultsThe review included 1,590 unique patients treated with OP IV diuretics, with a mean age of 70 ± 6 years, 69.7% male, and 74.8% NYHA III-IV.

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Outpatient Heart Failure Medicare Inpatient 59

Coronary Artery Disease Journal

JUNE 18, 2024

Methods We analyzed the national inpatient sample database to compare the inpatient mortality rate for ACKD patients [chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage 3 and above] who underwent PCI between 2006 and 2011 to patients without ACKD. These patients are often excluded from revascularization studies.

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Kidney Disease Inpatient Outcomes Research 40

Coronary Artery Disease Journal

APRIL 28, 2025

Methods We extracted data from the National Inpatient Sample database for adult patients with CAD from 2018 to 2020. Background Although existing literature highlights obesity as a significant predictor for coronary artery disease (CAD), the impact of BMI on hospital outcomes among CAD patients remains unclear.

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Coronary Artery Disease Obesity Inpatient BMI 40

DAIC

MAY 2, 2024

Decongestion remains a central goal of inpatient management, but contemporary decongestion practices and associated weight loss are not well described. In the TREAT-AHF study, the distribution of inpatient body weight change was similar to those reported from ADHERE nearly two decades ago. days (ranging from 3.7

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Heart Failure Inpatient Hospital Research 105

The British Journal of Cardiology

JANUARY 14, 2025

The majority of inpatient HF services reviewed patients with primary (96%) or secondary (89%) admission for HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), corresponding percentages for HF with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) were 68% and 51%, respectively. A two-week pathway and six-week pathway were present in 78.5% and 75%, respectively.

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Heart Failure Preserved Ejection Fraction Hospital Inpatient 49

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

MAY 4, 2025

Herein, we describe the various categories in a practical guide to initiation to make clinicians more comfortable with starting and maintaining antiarrhythmic therapy in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. The central illustration summarizes the article.

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Atrial Fibrillation Outpatient Inpatient Article 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Few studies have evaluated subacute inpatient telestroke programs that focus on subsequent stroke management. Inpatient local neurology coverage led to unique implementation challenges, with historical practice patterns and differences of recommendations noted (Table 3).

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Inpatient Nursing Stroke Strokes 40

Hypertension Journal

MAY 28, 2024

Throughout this scientific statement, we use the terms acute care and inpatient to refer to care received in the emergency department and after admission to the hospital. However, the risk-benefit ratio of initiating or intensifying antihypertensive medications for asymptomatic elevated inpatient BP is less clear.

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Blood Pressure Inpatient Best Practices Hypertension 69

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We evaluated our current process and implemented action plans to enhance the current inpatient stroke code process through focused education and training of staff to improve their recognition of acute stroke, timely activation of stroke code and improved CT initiation and treatment times.

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Inpatient Stroke Strokes Document 40

Journal of the American Heart Association

MAY 14, 2025

The goal of this study was to evaluate the outcome data of patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy using a large inpatient database.Methods and ResultsWe used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database for our study. BackgroundTakotsubo cardiomyopathy continues to be a major cause of mortality and morbidity.

Cardiomyopathy 81

Cardiomyopathy Cardiogenic Shock Inpatient Cardiac Arrest 81

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

JANUARY 29, 2024

The retraction has been issued at the authors’ request.Patel et al Anterior Circulation Thrombectomy in Patients With Low National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale Score: Analysis of the National Inpatient Sample. Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology. 2023, e000998.[link]

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Inpatient Circulation Stroke Strokes 40

Coronary Artery Disease Journal

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Methods We analyzed the data from National Inpatient Sample from 2016 to 2020 and assessed the impact of COVID-19 infection and the COVID-19 pandemic (year 2020) on in-hospital mortality, length of stay (LOS) and hospitalization costs.P Results There were 1 050 905 hospitalizations with STEMI, and there was an 8.2%

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COVID-19 STEMI Inpatient Hospital 52

Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This study aims to evaluate the outcomes of chronic opioid therapy on HFpEF patients.Methods:Studying the National Inpatient Sample (2016-2020), we identified adult HFpEF patients using the appropriate ICD-10 codes -after excluding patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD)- and compared outcomes between chronic opioid users and non-users.

Preserved Ejection Fraction 40

Preserved Ejection Fraction Inpatient Cardiogenic Shock Heart Failure 40

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Current guidance regarding endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for PCA occlusion is insufficient as no randomized trials exist.MethodsA real‐world retrospective National Inpatient Sample database analysis compared medical management (MM) versus EVT for PCA strokes.

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Inpatient Stroke Strokes Outcomes 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

We aimed to examine differences in change of language function in two patient groups: those who did and those who did not meet the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) in motor function after inpatient rehabilitation. female, mean age 67(SD=14)] were included.

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Inpatient Stroke Strokes Outcomes 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

A new inpatient stroke alert process was developed to improve assessment and treatment of stroke. Introduction:Inpatient stroke alerts requiring an in-person neurologist to assess and evaluate patients for thrombolytic therapy may contribute to delays in evaluation and treatment.

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Inpatient Stroke Strokes Thrombolysis 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The total number of subjects enrolled in acute, inpatient, and outpatient stroke trials in MHFV were compiled.Results:The comprehensive stroke class was attended by MHFV nurses 1,667 times. The number of attendees for each session from 2019-June 2023 were recorded along with anonymous comments about the presentation.

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Nursing Education Inpatient Stroke 40

HeartRhythm

MARCH 31, 2025

The National Inpatient Sample (NIS) database allows analysis of the safety of cardiovascular procedures in real-world, large, in-patient cohort.

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Inpatient Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Hospital 40