About this trial
Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure is designed to improve the quality of care in patients hospitalized with heart failure. The program aims to help ensure that eligible patients are initiated on guideline recommended therapies and receive appropriate counseling prior to hospital discharge.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure.
Disqualifiers
Patients who do not have congestive heart failure,
Patients under age of 18,
Patients not admitted as inpatients.
Trial population
The study populations is primary diagnosis or secondary diagnosis of heart failure
Trial design
Cohort
Other
Treatments tested in this trial
GWTG Heart Failure program
Other interventionEvidence based guideline recommended therapies and counseling prior to hospital discharge
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
30 day readmission rate
Percent of index encounters where there is a readmission within 30 days
60 day readmission rate
Percent of index encounters where there is a readmission within 60 days
90 day readmission rate
Percent of index encounters where there is a readmission within 90 days
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