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OPTIMIZE-ing treatment for patients with heart failure

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boxed-textFonarow GC et al. for the OPTIMIZE-HF Investigators and Hospitals (2007) Influence of a performance-improvement initiative on quality of care for patients hospitalized with heart failure: results of the Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure (OPTIMIZE-HF). Arch Intern Med 167: 1493–1502

A systematic approach to the treatment of patients hospitalized with HF, using standard admission orders, practice algorithms, discharge sets, and a web-based reminder system, improves performance measures and reduces length of hospital stay

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  1. TM Koelling is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine and the Medical Director of Heart Failure in the Cardiovascular Center and at the University of Michigan, and KA Eagle is the Albion Walter Hewlett Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the Cardiovascular Center at the University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.,

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Koelling, T., Eagle, K. OPTIMIZE-ing treatment for patients with heart failure. Nat Rev Cardiol 5, 10–11 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio1037

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