Variation exists in rates of admission to intensive care units for heart failure patients across hospitals in the United States

INIS

• units 100%
• hospitals 64%
• patients 47%
• heart failure 41%
• range 11%
• risks 11%
• interventions 11%
• mortality 11%
• ventilation 11%
• resources 5%
• levels 5%
• surgery 5%
• therapy 5%
• cost 5%
• comparative evaluations 5%
• variations 5%
• usa 5%
• increasing 5%
• coronaries 5%
• vasodilators 5%

Nursing and Health Professions

• Intensive Care Unit 82%
• Hospital 64%
• Heart Failure 41%
• Treatment Outcome 17%
• Mortality 11%
• Data Base 5%
• Hospital Admission 5%
• Artificial Respiration 5%
• Hypertensive Factor 5%
• Coronary Care Unit 5%
• Vasodilator Agent 5%
• Medical Intensive Care Unit 5%
• Surgical Intensive Care Unit 5%

Medicine and Dentistry

• Patient 58%
• Heart Failure 41%
• Mortality 11%
• Association 11%
• Discharge 11%
• Vasodilator Agent 5%
• Hypertensive Factor 5%
• Artificial Respiration 5%
• Inotropic Agent 5%
• Health Care Cost 5%
• Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation 5%
• Attention 5%
• Therapeutic Procedure 5%
• Quality of Care 5%