Gregory K. Mulvey

TL;DR: A systematic review of the published English-language literature identified no model designed to compare hospital rates of readmission, while models designed to predict patients' readmission risk used heterogeneous approaches and found substantial inconsistencies regarding which patient characteristics were predictive.

TL;DR: Joseph Ross and colleagues examine publication rates of clinical trials and find low rates of publication even following registration in Clinicaltrials.gov.

TL;DR: Hospitals ranked by U.S. News & World Report as “America’s Best Hospitals” in “Heart & Heart Surgery” are more likely than nonranked hospitals to have a significantly lower than expected 30-day mortality rate, but there was much overlap in performance.

TL;DR: The magnitude of benefit from comprehensively regionalizing AMI care to PCI hospitals appears to vary greatly across HRRs, and these findings support a tailored regionalization policy that targets areas with the greatest outcome differences between PCI and local non-PCI hospitals.

TL;DR: A systematic review of models designed to compare hospital rates of readmission or to predict patients’ risk of readmissions, as well as to identify studies evaluating patient characteristics associated with hospital readmission, all among patients admitted for HF.