Publications by authors named "D Yumino"

Article Synopsis
  • Preplanning care is essential for patients with end-stage heart failure (HF), but advance care planning (ACP) is not commonly practiced due to the difficulty in predicting patient prognosis.
  • Several risk stratification models have been developed to assist in clinical settings.
  • A study was conducted to see if giving doctors estimated survival information would lead to more frequent initiation of ACP and improve patients' quality of life.
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Background: Using third-party resources to manage remote monitoring (RM) data from implantable cardiac electronic devices (CIEDs) can assist in device clinic workflows. However, each hospital-acquired data is not used for further analysis as big data.

Methods And Results: We developed a real-time and automatically centralized system of CIED information from multiple hospitals.

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This study examined quality indicators (QIs) for heart failure (HF) in patients' referral documents (PRDs).We conducted a nationwide questionnaire survey to identify information that general practitioners (GPs) would like hospital cardiologists (HCs) to include in PRDs and that HCs actually include in PRDs. The percentage of GPs that desired each item included in PRDs was converted into a deviation score, and items with a deviation score of ≥ 50 were defined as QIs.

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