Yu Zhang, Minghao Liu, Peijin Li, Likun Ma, Lixue Yin, Yinghua Cui, Kai Huang, Wei Li, Hui Xin, Meixiang Xiang, Cuilian Dai, Mulei Chen, Jinping Feng, Zeqi Zheng, Yawei Xu, Yihan Chen, Xuejun Jiang, Genshan Ma, Ping Yang, Fang Wang, Xinli Li, Wei Jin, Hong Chen, Rutai Hui, Lian Wang, Hongyan Xiao, Liwen Liu, Yubao Zou, Lei Song
BACKGROUND: The public health burden of cardiomyopathies and competency in their management by health agencies in China are not well understood. METHODS: This study adopted a multi-stage sampling method for hospital selection. In the first stage, nationwide tertiary hospital recruitment was performed. As a result, 88 hospitals with the consent of the director of cardiology and access to an established electronic medical records system, were recruited. In the second stage, we sampled 66 hospitals within each geographic-economic stratification through a random sampling process...
May 2024: The Lancet Regional Health. Western Pacific