Risk-treatment mismatch in the pharmacotherapy of heart failure
Risk-treatment mismatch in the pharmacotherapy of heart failure
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DOI:
10.1001/jama.294.10.1240
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发表时间:
2005-09-14
影响因子:
120.7
通讯作者:
Laupacis, A
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作者:
Lee, DS;Tu, JV;Laupacis, A
Context Patients with heart failure have a wide spectrum of mortality risks. To maximize the benefit of available pharmacotherapies, patients with high mortality risk should receive high rates of drug therapy.Objective To examine patterns of drug therapy and underlying mortality risk in patients with heart failure.Design, Setting, and Patients In the Enhanced Feedback for Effective Cardiac Treatment (EFFECT) population-based cohort (1999-2001) of 9942 patients with heart failure hospitalized in Ontario, Canada, we evaluated 1418 patients with documented left ventricular ejection fraction of 40% or less and aged 79 years or younger with low-, average-, and high-predicted risk of death within 1 year; all patients survived to hospital discharge. Administration of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, ACE inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), and beta-adrenoreceptor antagonists was evaluated according to predicted risk of death.Main Outcome Measure Heart failure drug administration rates at time of discharge and 90 days after hospital discharge.Results At hospital discharge, prescription rates for patients in the low-, average-, and high-risk groups were 81%, 73%, 60%, respectively, for ACE inhibitors; 86%, 80%, 65%, respectively, for ACE inhibitors or ARBs; and 40%, 33%, 24%, respectively, for beta-adrenoreceptor antagonists (all P