American Heart Journal
Volume 156, Issue 4 , Pages 674-681, October 2008

Quality of care and outcomes among patients with heart failure and chronic kidney disease: A Get With the Guidelines—Heart Failure Program study

  • Uptal D. Patel, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Uptal D. Patel, MD, Duke Clinical Research Institute, DUMC Box 3646, Nephrology, Durham, NC 27710.
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  • Adrian F. Hernandez, MD, MHS

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC
    • Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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  • Li Liang, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC
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  • Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC
    • Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
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  • Kenneth A. LaBresh, MD

      Affiliations

    • MassPro, Waltham, MA
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  • Clyde W. Yancy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
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  • Nancy M. Albert, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
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  • Gray Ellrodt, MD

      Affiliations

    • Berkshire Medical Center, Pittsfield, MA
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  • Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, FACC

      Affiliations

    • Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Received 23 December 2007; accepted 23 May 2008. published online 21 July 2008.

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 Funding/Support: This study was funded by the American Heart Association (Dallas, TX) with support from an unrestricted educational grant from GlaxoSmithKline, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA) Doctor Patel is the recipient of grant K23 DK075929-01 from the National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (Bethesda, MD). Doctor Hernandez is supported by an American Heart Association Pharmaceutical Roundtable grant 0675060N. Doctor Peterson is the recipient of grant R01 AG025312-01A1 from the National Institute on Aging (Bethesda, MD). Doctor Fonarow holds the Eliot Corday Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science.

 Presented in part at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2006, Chicago, IL, November 12-15, 2006.

PII: S0002-8703(08)00400-6

doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2008.05.028

American Heart Journal
Volume 156, Issue 4 , Pages 674-681, October 2008

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