Publications by authors named "Kamal Faridi"
Article Synopsis
- Accountable care organizations (ACOs) aim to enhance healthcare quality and lower costs for heart failure patients, but there’s limited understanding of admission rate variations across different ACOs.
- A study of over 1.2 million heart failure patients revealed significant differences in acute admission rates among 467 ACOs, with a median of 87 admissions per 100 people, highlighting that 13% performed better while 14% performed worse than average.
- ACOs that had better performance generally had fewer Black beneficiaries and were independent, while those that fared worse tended to be large, hospital-affiliated, and located in the Northeast with fewer primary care providers.
Introduction: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an important contributor to morbidity and mortality in patients seeking emergency care, resulting in high acuity presentations and resource utilization. The objective was to characterize the rate of intensive care unit (ICU) admission for PH among adult patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) along with other important clinical outcomes.
Methods: We analyzed data from the State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD) and State Inpatient Databases (SID) from two geographically separated U.
Introduction: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a common, yet under-diagnosed, contributor to morbidity and mortality. Our objective was to characterize the prevalence of PH among adult patients presenting to United States (US) emergency departments (ED) and to identify demographic patterns and outcomes of PH patients in the ED.
Methods: We analyzed the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample (NEDS) database, with a focus on ED patients aged 18 years and older, with any International Classification of Diseases, Clinical Modification (ICD)-9-CM or ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for PH from 2011 to 2015.