AJMC September 25, 2024
Hospitals that better utilized heart failure guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) had better patient outcomes, with lower mortality rates and costs.
Hospitals that score higher on a composite measure of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) for patients with heart failure tend to have better patient outcomes, according to a new study published in JAMA Cardiology.1 These outcomes include reduced mortality, fewer rehospitalizations, lower health care costs, and an often overlooked aspect of a patient’s quality of life: more time spent at home instead of the hospital.
Conducted as a retrospective cohort analysis of the American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines–Heart Failure Registry, the study evaluated 360 hospitals across the US between 2015 and 2019, including data from more than 41,000 patients...
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