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Articles tagged ‘audit’
May 2010
Br J Cardiol 2010;17:142-3
Achieving the dose: an audit of discharge medication for the secondary prevention of myocardial infarction
To establish whether the medication received by patients post-myocardial infarction was prescribed at therapeutic doses, we performed a retrospective audit of discharge summaries. Over three...
March 2010
Br J Cardiol 2010;17:69-70
The British Society for Heart Failure 12th Annual Autumn Meeting
Highlights of this year’s British Society for Heart Failure (BSH) meeting, held in November in London, included a call for specialist heart failure units which...
September 2009
Br J Cardiol 2009;16:211–12
Cardiac rehabilitation: we should all be doing it
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is the process by which patients with cardiac disease, in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team of health professionals, are encouraged and supported...
May 2009
Br J Cardiol 2009;16:132–4
Nurse specialist-led management of acute coronary syndromes
The management of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) has changed greatly over recent years. Trial evidence encouraged clinicians to consider early invasive management in high-risk patients...
September 2008
Br J Cardiol 2008;15:227-29
Delivering PCI in the UK – need for strategic thinking and a quality agenda
The UK has witnessed a seismic shift in the delivery of healthcare to patients with coronary heart disease, but there is still a lot to...
March 2006
Br J Cardiol 2006;13:145-52
The ‘rule of halves’ still applies to the management of cholesterol in cardiovascular disease: 2002–2005
The current national target in the UK for total cholesterol is 5 mmol/L. The Primary Care Data Quality (PCDQ) programme reported in 2002 that only...
November 2005
Br J Cardiol (Acute Interv Cardiol) 2005;12:AIC 81–AIC 82
Percutaneous coronary interventions in West Yorkshire for the year 2002: an audit
Early invasive management in patients with unstable angina and non-ST elevation myocardial infarct (NSTEMI) is now well established. However, patients can wait for weeks at...
March 2005
Br J Cardiol (Acute Interv Cardiol) 2006;13:AIC 14–AIC 18
Risk of death, MI and patterns of care delivered in non-ST elevation ACS patients with intermediate elevations in cardiac troponin T: a UK DGH experience
Abstract Prior studies have suggested a gradation in clinical risk with increasing elevations of cardiac troponins in patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes (ACS)....
July 2004
Br J Cardiol 2004;11:323-5
An evidence-based audit of coronary heart disease clinics
The National Service Framework (NSF) for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) requires practices to establish registers of patients with CHD and to implement audits of care...