Heart Failure Standards

Across the region, our partner health systems have agreed to measure and report to the public about how well they met nationally accepted standards for the evaluation and treatment of heart failure.
 

Heart Failure Evaluation

Our Heart Failure Evaluation standards describe how well physicians and other health care providers did at getting needed tests done for their patients with heart failure.  Overall, we report on the percentage of patients receiving all four of the important checks for signs and symptoms of their condition described below.

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In 2009-10, across our partner practices, nearly eight out of ten patients met our evaluation standard, which means that they were appropriately assessed for how well their heart was working, their blood chemistry, their weight and their blood pressure.

Heart Failure Treatment

Our Heart Failure Treatment standard describes how often patients with serious or moderate heart failure (about two of every five of our heart failure patients) were treated with important and appropriate medications. Overall, we report the percentage of patients that received at least one of these important medications.

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Across our partner practices in 2009-10, more than nine and a half out of ten patients who should be treated for their heart failure met our treatment standard, which means that they had received a prescription for either an ACE/ARB medication or a Beta-Blocker medication, or both.