Sarah Donnelly, Christopher F Barnett, Erin A Bohula, Sunit-Preet Chaudhry, Meshe D Chonde, Howard A Cooper, Lori B Daniels, Mark W Dodson, Daniel Gerber, Michael J Goldfarb, Jianping Guo, Michael C Kontos, Shuangbo Liu, Adriana C Luk, Venu Menon, Connor G O'Brien, Alexander I Papolos, Barbara A Pisani, Brian J Potter, Rajnish Prasad, Gregory Schnell, Kevin S Shah, Lakshmi Sridharan, Derek Y F So, Jeffrey J Teuteberg, Wayne J Tymchak, Sammy Zakaria, Jason N Katz, David A Morrow, Sean van Diepen
BACKGROUND: Wide interhospital variations exist in cardiovascular intensive care unit (CICU) admission practices and the use of critical care restricted therapies (CCRx), but little is known about the differences in patient acuity, CCRx utilization, and the associated outcomes within tertiary centers. METHODS: The Critical Care Cardiology Trials Network is a multicenter registry of tertiary and academic CICUs in the United States and Canada that captured consecutive admissions in 2-month periods between 2017 and 2022...
January 5, 2024: Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes