ABCs of Stroke Prevention: Improving Stroke Outcomes in Children Supported With a Ventricular Assist Device in a Quality Improvement Network

Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2020 Dec;13(12):e006663. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.120.006663. Epub 2020 Dec 15.

Authors

Chet R Villa¹, Christina J VanderPluym²; ACTION Investigators*

Collaborators

Affiliations

¹ The Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, OH (C.R.V.).
² Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard School of Medicine, MA (C.J.V.).

PMID: 33320692
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.120.006663

No abstract available

Keywords: diagnosis; heart failure; mortality; pediatrics; population; stroke.

Publication types

Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Age Factors
Anticoagulants / therapeutic use
Antihypertensive Agents / therapeutic use
Blood Coagulation / drug effects
Blood Pressure / drug effects
Checklist
Communication
Heart Failure / diagnosis
Heart Failure / epidemiology
Heart Failure / physiopathology
Heart Failure / therapy*
Heart-Assist Devices*
Humans
Program Evaluation
Prosthesis Implantation / adverse effects
Prosthesis Implantation / instrumentation*
Quality Improvement*
Quality Indicators, Health Care*
Registries
Risk Assessment
Risk Factors
Stroke / diagnosis
Stroke / epidemiology
Stroke / prevention & control*
Time Factors
Treatment Outcome
Ventricular Function*

Substances

Anticoagulants
Antihypertensive Agents