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Does Value Based Care Improve Cardiology?

CardiacWire

Casting doubt on value based cardiac care, a JAMA study found that outpatient cardiology practices enrolled in an accountable care organization (ACO) through the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) dont offer better care than non-ACO practices. No changes in CVD drug prescriptions, LDL profiles, or smoking cessation.

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Surgeon Preference Impacts Survival Outcomes Analyses for CABG Patients

DAIC

Medicare beneficiaries who underwent CABG from 2001 to 2019. They noted that because their analysis was focused on the Medicare population, the cohort was limited to older patients. the data and outcomes from the STS Database specialty registries provide true national benchmarks for clinical outcomes of cardiothoracic surgery.

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Intensive Versus Traditional Cardiac Rehabilitation: Mortality and Cardiovascular Outcomes in a 2016–2020 Retrospective Medicare Cohort

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Ahead of Print. Background:Traditional cardiac rehabilitation (CR) improves cardiovascular outcomes and reduces mortality, but less is known about the relative benefit of intensive CR (ICR) which incorporates greater lifestyle education through 72 sessions (versus 36 in CR).

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STS Announces Late-breaker Research to Be Presented at the 2024 Annual Meeting

DAIC

The analysis included 4,798 patients from 207 STS sites who underwent esophagectomy between 2012-2019. The researchers found that Medicare patients undergoing esophagectomy for cancer exhibit identifiable predictors for long-term survival and readmission.

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Referral Networks, Racial Inequity, and Hospital Quality for Open Heart Surgery

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Ahead of Print. BACKGROUND:Differences in the quality of hospitals where Black and White patients receive coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery have been documented.

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Abstract 13: Prior Bariatric Surgery is Associated With Reduced Risk of Recurrent Stroke Among Elderly Obese Stroke Survivors: A National Inpatient Sample Study (2016-2019)

Stroke Journal

Introduction:The paucity of large-scale data exploring the effect of prior bariatric surgery on recurrent stroke outcomes in elderly obese stroke survivors led us to address the gap, with an emphasis on the risk of recurrent stroke and its trends.Methods:A retrospective study was conducted using National Inpatient Sample data from 2016-2019.

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Impact of Intensity of Vascular Care Preceding Major Amputation Among Patients With Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

Secondary objectives evaluated all-cause mortality and adverse events following amputation.RESULTS:Of 33 036 total Medicare beneficiaries undergoing major amputation, 7885 (23.9%) were due to chronic limb-threatening ischemia; of these, 4988 (63.3%) received low-intensity and 2897 (36.7%) received high-intensity vascular care.