Background The National Heart Failure Audit gathers data on patients coded at discharge (or death) as having heart failure as ...

About The Study: The mortality gap between the U.S. and comparison countries widened in the last decade. Each year, nearly 20,000 deaths among youths ages 0 to 19 years would not have occurred had U.S ...

Background The epidemiology of native valve infective endocarditis (IE) has shifted toward older adults with substantial ...

Patients who have comorbid COPD with heart failure and ischemic heart disease have increased health care resource use and higher mortality.

The release of a critical report by The Commonwealth Funds this week only further underscores the decrepit state of healthcare in the United States, the center of world capitalism. The study, titled ...

KFF used 2018-22 data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics to compile maternal deaths and mortality rates. Maternal deaths are defined as deaths of women while pregnant or within 42 ...

How can CMOs reduce hospital mortality rates at their organizations? CMOs play a crucial role in helping hospitals reduce mortality rates by overseeing initiatives and strategies aimed at improving ...