Response by Kumbhani et al to Letters Regarding Article, "association between Hospital Volume, Processes of Care, and Outcomes in Patients Admitted with Heart Failure: Insights from Get with the Guidelines-Heart Failure"

Dharam J. Kumbhani, Gregg C. Fonarow, Paul A. Heidenreich, Phillip J. Schulte, Di Lu, Adrian Hernandez, Clyde Yancy, Deepak L. Bhatt

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Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2306-2307
Number of pages2
JournalCirculation
Volume138
Issue number20
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 13 2018

Funding

Dr Kumbhani has received honoraria from the American College of Cardiology. Dr Fonarow has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health and is a consultant for Amgen, Janssen, Medtronic, Novartis, and St Jude Medical. Dr Bhatt is on the Advisory Board of Cardax, Elsevier Practice Update Cardiology, Medscape Cardiology, and Regado Biosciences; is on the Board of Directors of Boston VA Research Institute and the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care; is a chair of the American Heart Association Quality Oversight Committee; is on the Data Monitoring Committees of the Cleveland Clinic, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Harvard Clinical Research Institute, Mayo Clinic, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Population Health Research Institute; has received honoraria from the American College of Cardiology (senior associate editor, Clinical Trials and News, ACC.org), Belvoir Publications (editor-in-chief, Harvard Heart Letter), Duke Clinical Research Institute (clinical trial steering committees), Harvard Clinical Research Institute (clinical trial steering committee), HMP Communications (editor-in-chief, Journal of Invasive Cardiology), Journal of the American College of Cardiology (guest editor, associate editor), Population Health Research Institute (clinical trial steering committee), Slack Publications (chief medical editor, Cardiology Today\u2019s Intervention), Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care (secretary/treasurer), and WebMD (CME steering committees); is a deputy editor of Clinical Cardiology; is Chair of the NCDR-ACTION Registry Steering Committee; is Chair of the VA CART Research and Publications Committee; has received research funding from Amarin, Am-gen, AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Chiesi, Eisai, Ethicon, Forest Laboratories, Ironwood, Ischemix, Lilly, Medtronic, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi Aventis, and the Medicines Company; has received royalties from Elsevier (editor, Cardiovascular Intervention: A Companion to Braunwald\u2019s Heart Disease); is a site coinvestigator for Biotronik, Boston Scientific, and St Jude Medical (now Abbott); is a trustee for American College of Cardiology; and has received unfunded research funding from FlowCo, Merck, PLx Pharma, and Takeda. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Physiology (medical)

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