- Kociol RD, Peterson ED, Hammill BG, Flynn KE, Heidenreich PA, Piña IL, Lytle BL, Albert NM, Curtis LH, Fonarow GC, Hernandez AF. National survey of hospital strategies to reduce heart failure readmissions: findings from the get with the guidelines-heart failure registry. Circulation: Heart Failure. 2012 Nov 1; 5:(6):680-7.
- Oliva N, Sahay A, Gholami P, Heidenreich PA. Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing the 2010 Veterans’ Administration (VA) CHF QUERI Hospital to Home (H2H) Initiative. Poster session presented at: Heart Failure Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting; 2012 Sep 9; Seattle, WA.
- Jones J, McDermott CM, Nowels CT, Matlock DD, Bekelman DB. The experience of fatigue as a distressing symptom of heart failure. Heart & lung : the journal of critical care. 2012 Sep 1; 41(5):484-91.
- Garvin JH, DuVall SL, South BR, Bray BE, Bolton D, Heavirland J, Pickard S, Heidenreich P, Shen S, Weir C, Samore M, Goldstein MK. Automated extraction of ejection fraction for quality measurement using regular expressions in Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) for heart failure. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. 2012 Sep 1; 19(5):859-66.
- Oliva N, Gaskin L, Sahay A, Gholami P, Heidenreich PA. Self-reported awareness of Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) in a VA population diagnosed with CHF: Implications for individual patients, caregivers, providers and organizations. [Abstract]. Journal of cardiac failure. 2012 Aug 1; 18(8):355.
- Groeneveld PW, Medvedeva E, Roberts C, Navaline HA, Richardson DM. Increasing use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in the Veterans Health Administration: 2001-2010. Poster session presented at: VA HSR&D / QUERI National Meeting; 2012 Jul 16; Washington, DC.
- Sahay A. Designing, implementing, and evaluating successful toolkits in VA. Paper presented at: VA HSR&D National Meeting; 2012 Jul 16; Washington, DC.
- Steinberg BA, Zhao X, Heidenreich PA, Peterson ED, Bhatt DL, Cannon CP, Hernandez AF, Fonarow GC, Get With the Guidelines Scientific Advisory Committee and Investigators. Trends in patients hospitalized with heart failure and preserved left ventricular ejection fraction: prevalence, therapies, and outcomes. Circulation. 2012 Jul 3; 126(1):65-75.
- Dev S. ‘Phoenix VA Hospital to Home Initiative’ VISN 18. Paper presented at: VA Quality Expo Meeting; 2012 Jun 27; Albuquerque, NM.
- Sahay A, Stetler CB. Prospective use of theoretical frameworks to guide implementation: Systematic evaluation of PARIHS and development of a related implementation guide. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2012 Jun 23; Orlando, FL.
- Sahay A, Gholami P, Heidenreich PA. Facilitation of the VA Hospital To Home (H2H) Initiative to Reduce Readmissions for Heart Failure: CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2012 Jun 23; Orlando, CA.
- Sahay A, Zapata AL, Heidenreich PA. Formative evaluation of the new standardized disease management protocol for heart failure: CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2012 Jun 23; Orlando, FL.
- Sahay A, Stetler CB. PARIHS as a theoretical framework for implementation science research: A systematic conceptual evaluation by a VA QUERI Initiative. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2012 Jun 23; Orlando, FL.
- Heidenreich PA, Sahay A. Successful facilitation of the Save 5 Million Lives Campaign at VA VISNs (Regions): CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2012 Jun 23; Orlando, FL.
- Kapoor JR, Heidenreich PA. Role of heart rate as a marker and mediator of poor outcome for patients with heart failure. Current heart failure reports. 2012 Jun 1; 9(2):133-8.
- Curtis LH, Mi X, Qualls LG, Hammill BG, Hammill SC, Heidenreich PA, Masoudi FA, Setoguchi S, Hernandez AF, Fonarow GC. Design and rationale of a retrospective clinical effectiveness study of aldosterone antagonist therapy in patients with heart failure. American heart journal. 2012 Jun 1; 163:(6):946-953.e1.
- Heidenreich PA, Turakhia M. Warfarin Use And Bleeding Risk In Veterans With Incident Atrial Fibrillation And Severe Chronic Kidney Disease: The TREAT-AF Study. Poster session presented at: Heart Rhythm Society Annual Scientific Sessions; 2012 May 11; Boston, MA.
- Sahay A, Gholami P, Heidenreich PA. A successful blended facilitation approach with internal and external facilitators to implementation the VA Hospital-To-Home (H2H) Initiative: CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Scientific Annual Forum; 2012 May 9; Atlanta, GA.
- Sahay A, Zapata AL, Heidenreich PA. Formative Evaluation of the New Standardized Disease Management Protocol for Heart Failure: CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Scientific Annual Forum; 2012 May 9; Atlanta, GA.
- Witteles RM, Knowles JW, Perez M, Morris WM, Spettell CM, Brennan TA, Heidenreich PA. Use and overuse of left ventriculography. American heart journal. 2012 Apr 1; 163(4):617-23.e1.
- Turakhia M, Yang F, Xu X, Winkelmayer W, Hoang DD, Heidenreich PA. Amiodarone use is not associated with mortality in patients with atrial fibrillation and kidney dysfunction or dialysis: the TREAT-AF study. Poster session presented at: American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session; 2012 Mar 27; Chicago IL.
- Turakhia M, Yang F, Xu X, Winkelmayer W, Hoang DD, Heidenreich PA. Interaction among digoxin use, kidney function, and mortality in patients with atrial fibrillation: the TREAT-AF study. Poster session presented at: American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Session; 2012 Mar 26; Chicago, IL.
- Sahay A, Gholami P, Heidenreich PA. Use of internal and external facilitators for the implementation the VA Hospital-To-Home (H2H) Initiative: Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) QUERI. Poster session presented at: National Institutes of Health Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Research At The Crossroads; 2012 Mar 19; Bethesda, MD.
- Sahay A, Stetler CB. PARIHS as a theoretical framework for implementation science research: A systematic conceptual evaluation by a VA QUERI Initiative. Poster session presented at: National Institutes of Health Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Research At The Crossroads; 2012 Mar 19; Bethesda, MD.
- Al-Khatib SM, Hellkamp AS, Hernandez AF, Fonarow GC, Thomas KL, Al-Khalidi HR, Heidenreich PA, Hammill S, Yancy C, Peterson ED, Get With the Guidelines Steering Committee and Hospitals. Trends in use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy among patients hospitalized for heart failure: have the previously observed sex and racial disparities changed over time?. Circulation. 2012 Mar 6; 125:(9):1094-101.
- Retrum JH, Nowels CT, Bekelman DB. Patient and Caregiver Congruence: The Importance of Dyads in Heart Failure Care. The Journal of cardiovascular nursing. 2012 Feb 17.
- Solomon MD, Ullal AJ, Hoang DD, Freeman JV, Heidenreich P, Turakhia MP. Cost-effectiveness of pharmacologic and invasive therapies for stroke prophylaxis in atrial fibrillation. Journal of cardiovascular medicine. 2012 Feb 1; 13(2):86-96.
- Heidenreich PA, Zhao X, Hernandez AF, Yancy CW, Fonarow GC. Patient and hospital characteristics associated with traditional measures of inpatient quality of care for patients with heart failure. American heart journal. 2012 Feb 1; 163(2):239-45.e3.
- Heidenreich PA, Hernandez AF, Yancy CW, Liang L, Peterson ED, Fonarow GC. Get With The Guidelines program participation, process of care, and outcome for Medicare patients hospitalized with heart failure. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes. 2012 Jan 10; 5(1):37-43.
- Freeman JV, Wang Y, Curtis JP, Heidenreich PA, Hlatky MA. Physician procedure volume and complications of cardioverter-defibrillator implantation. Circulation. 2012 Jan 3; 125(1):57-64.
- Epstein AJ, Polsky D, Yang F, Yang L, Groeneveld PW. Geographic variation in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator use and heart failure survival. Medical care. 2012 Jan 1; 50:(1):10-7.
- Turakhia M. Linking large datasets (VA and Medicare) to understand dual health care system use, quality of care, and outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation. Paper presented at: University of California San Francisco Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Group Seminar; 2011 Dec 1; San Francisco, CA.
- Merchant RM, Yang L, Becker LB, Berg RA, Nadkarni V, Nichol G, Carr BG, Mitra N, Bradley SM, Abella BS, Groeneveld PW, American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation Investigators. Incidence of treated cardiac arrest in hospitalized patients in the United States. Critical care medicine. 2011 Nov 1; 39(11):2401-6.
- Eapen ZJ, Fonarow GC, Dai D, O'Brien SM, Schwamm LH, Cannon CP, Heidenreich PA, Bhatt DL, Peterson ED, Hernandez AF, Get With The Guidelines Steering Committee and Hospitals. Comparison of composite measure methodologies for rewarding quality of care: an analysis from the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines program. Circulation. Cardiovascular quality and outcomes. 2011 Nov 1; 4(6):610-8.
- Pope CA. Contrasting Cognitive Maps of Diabetes and Heart Failure in the Talk of Veterans. Paper presented at: International Conference on Communication in Healthcare; 2011 Oct 16; Chicago, IL.
- Steinman MA, Harlow JB, Massie BM, Kaboli PJ, Fung KZ, Heidenreich PA. Age and receipt of guideline-recommended medications for heart failure: a nationwide study of veterans. Journal of general internal medicine. 2011 Oct 1; 26(10):1152-9.
- Sahay A. A Blended Facilitation to Implement the VA Hospital-to-Home (H2H) Initiative: CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: Heart Failure Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting; 2011 Sep 18; Boston, MA.
- Sahay A, Heidenreich PA. Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing the 2010 Veterans’ Administration (VA) CHF QUERI Hospital to Home (H2H) Initiative. Poster session presented at: Heart Failure Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting; 2011 Sep 18; Boston, MA.
- Sahay A, Heidenreich PA. Successful Facilitation of the Save 5 Million Lives Campaign at VA VISNs (Regions): CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: National Institutes of Health Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Research At The Crossroads; 2011 Sep 18; Boston, MA.
- Sahay A, Heidenreich PA. A Blended Facilitation to Implement the VA Hospital-to-Home (H2H) Initiative: CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: Heart Failure Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting; 2011 Sep 18; Boston, MA.
- Oliva N, Sahay A, Gholami P, Heidenreich PA. Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing the 2010 Veterans’ Administration (VA) CHF QUERI Hospital to Home (H2H) Initiative. Poster session presented at: Heart Failure Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting; 2011 Sep 18; Boston, MA.
- Sahay A, Gholami P, Heidenreich PA, Oliva N. Facilitation of the VA Hospital To Home (H2H) Initiative to reduce readmissions for heart failure: CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: Heart Failure Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting; 2011 Sep 18; Boston, MA.
- Kapoor JR, Fonarow GC, Zhao X, Kapoor R, Hernandez AF, Heidenreich PA. Diabetes, quality of care, and in-hospital outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure. American heart journal. 2011 Sep 1; 162(3):480-6.e3.
- Hernandez AF, Fonarow GC, Liang L, Heidenreich PA, Yancy C, Peterson ED. The need for multiple measures of hospital quality: results from the Get with the Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry of the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2011 Aug 9; 124(6):712-9.
- Sahay A. VA CHF QUERI’s VISN-level Facilitation for the VA Save 5 Million Lives Campaign. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2011 Jun 12; Seattle, WA.
- Sahay A, Wholey DR, Heidenreich PA. Improving Heart Failure Care in the VA: The Role of Nurse-Physician Co-Leadership. Poster session presented at: AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting; 2011 Jun 12; Seattle, WA.
- Fonarow GC, Yancy CW, Hernandez AF, Peterson ED, Spertus JA, Heidenreich PA. Potential impact of optimal implementation of evidence-based heart failure therapies on mortality. American heart journal. 2011 Jun 1; 161(6):1024-30.e3.
- Sahay A. Successful Facilitation of the Save 5 Million Lives Campaign at VA VISNs (Regions): CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Scientific Annual Forum; 2011 May 12; Washington, DC.
- Sahay A, Heidenreich PA. Facilitation of the VA Hospital To Home (H2H) Initiative to Reduce Readmissions for Heart Failure: CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Scientific Annual Forum; 2011 May 12; Washington, DC.
- Sahay A. Successful Facilitation of the Save 5 Million Lives Campaign at VA VISNs (Regions): CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: VA Palo Alto VA Health Care System Research Week; 2011 May 2; Palo Alto, PA.
- Sahay A. Building Capacity with Opinion Leaders to Implement the VA Hospital to Home (H2H) Initiative: CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: VA Palo Alto VA Health Care System Research Week Seminar; 2011 May 2; Palo Alto, CA.
- Sahay A. Building Capacity with Opinion Leaders to Implement the VA Hospital to Home (H2H) Initiative: CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: VA Palo Alto VA Health Care System Research Week Seminar; 2011 May 2; Palo Alto, CA.
- Sahay A. Building Capacity with Opinion Leaders to Implement the VA Hospital to Home (H2H) Initiative: CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: VA Palo Alto VA Health Care System Research Week Seminar; 2011 May 2; Palo Alto, CA.
- Thomas KL, Hernandez AF, Dai D, Heidenreich P, Fonarow GC, Peterson ED, Yancy CW. Association of race/ethnicity with clinical risk factors, quality of care, and acute outcomes in patients hospitalized with heart failure. American heart journal. 2011 Apr 1; 161(4):746-54.
- Sahay A. Using Social Network to Improve Heart Failure Care. Poster session presented at: Multilevel Interventions in Health Care: Building the Foundation for Future Research Conference; 2011 Mar 4; Las Vegas, NV.
- Heidenreich PA, Trogdon JG, Khavjou OA, Butler J, Dracup K, Ezekowitz MD, Finkelstein EA, Hong Y, Johnston SC, Khera A, Lloyd-Jones DM, Nelson SA, Nichol G, Orenstein D, Wilson PW, Woo YJ, American Heart Association Advocacy Coordinating Committee, Stroke Council, Council on Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention, Council on Clinical Cardiology, Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, Council on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, Council on Cardiopulmonary, Critical Care, Perioperative and Resuscitation, Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, Council on the Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease, Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, and Interdisciplinary Council on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research. Forecasting the future of cardiovascular disease in the United States: a policy statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2011 Mar 1; 123(8):933-44.
- Sahay A. Using a Heart Failure Provider Network to Implement the Hospital to Home (H2H) Initiative: Results from a Randomized Trial. Poster session presented at: VA HSR&D National Meeting; 2011 Feb 16; Baltimore, MD.
- Kapoor JR, Heidenreich PA. Heart rate predicts mortality in patients with heart failure and preserved systolic function. Journal of cardiac failure. 2010 Oct 1; 16(10):806-11.
- Freeman JV, Wang Y, Curtis JP, Heidenreich PA, Hlatky MA. The relation between hospital procedure volume and complications of cardioverter-defibrillator implantation from the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator registry. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2010 Sep 28; 56(14):1133-9.
- Heidenreich PA, Sahay A, Kapoor JR, Pham MX, Massie B. Divergent trends in survival and readmission following a hospitalization for heart failure in the Veterans Affairs health care system 2002 to 2006. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2010 Jul 27; 56(5):362-8.
- Heidenreich PA. What works in Heart Failure? Paper presented at: VA “One Team toward One Dream” National Quality, Patient Safety and Systems Redesign Conference; 2010 Jun 22; San Francisco, CA.
- Sahay A. Interactive discussion of case examples of researcher operations collaborations from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI). Paper presented at: Knowledge Translation: Improving Health Care and Health Systems with Knowledge Translation Conference; 2010 Jun 7; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
- Heidenreich PA. Screening Past B-type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) Values to Identify Candidates for Treatment of Systolic Dysfunction. Poster session presented at: American Heart Association Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Council Annual Scientific Session; 2010 May 21; Washington, DC.
- Gholami P, Heidenreich PA. Screening Past B-type Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) Values to Identify Candidates for Treatment of Systolic Dysfunction. Poster session presented at: American Heart Association Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Council Annual Scientific Session; 2010 May 19; Washington DC.
- Heidenreich PA, Sahay A. Do Clinics with Focus on Heart Failure Provide Better Care for Patients? CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Scientific Annual Forum; 2010 May 10; Washington, DC.
- Sahay A, Heidenreich PA. A Multi-Method Approach for the Formative Evaluation of the Heart Failure Provider Network. Poster session presented at: Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Scientific Annual Forum; 2010 May 10; Washington, DC.
- Sahay A, Heidenreich PA. Do Clinics with Focus on Heart Failure Provide Better Care for Patients? CHF QUERI. Poster session presented at: Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Scientific Annual Forum; 2010 May 10; Washington, DC.
- Hernandez AF, Greiner MA, Fonarow GC, Hammill BG, Heidenreich PA, Yancy CW, Peterson ED, Curtis LH. Relationship between early physician follow-up and 30-day readmission among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for heart failure. JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association. 2010 May 5; 303(17):1716-22.
- Kapoor JR, Heidenreich PA. Obesity and survival in patients with heart failure and preserved systolic function: a U-shaped relationship. American heart journal. 2010 Jan 1; 159(1):75-80.
- Hlatky MA, Heidenreich P. The year in epidemiology, health services research, and outcomes research. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2009 Dec 15; 54(25):2343-51.
- Heidenreich PA. Commentary on Topics in Outcome Research. Paper presented at: American Heart Association Circulation Annual Scientific Session; 2009 Nov 17; Orlando, FL.
- Heidenreich PA. Health IT in Heart Failure: Patient Expectations and Acceptability. Paper presented at: American Heart Association Annual Scientific Sessions; 2009 Nov 16; Orlando, FL.
- Kapoor JR, Heidenreich PA. Survival among patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction treated with atenolol. Congestive Heart Failure (Greenwich, Conn.). 2009 Sep 1; 15(5):213-7.
- Hlatky MA, Heidenreich PA. The year in epidemiology, health services research, and outcomes research. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2009 Apr 21; 53(16):1459-66.
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