Are there sex and racial differences in the receipt of ICD therapy among eligible patients hospitalized with heart failure?
Patients hospitalized with heart failure who are potentially eligible for ICD therapy
Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD) therapy
Receipt of ICD therapy
Significant sex and racial disparities exist in the utilization of guideline-indicated ICD therapy among hospitalized heart failure patients.
Less than 40% of potentially eligible patients hospitalized for heart failure received ICD therapy, and rates of use were lower among eligible women and black patients than among white men.
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Adrian F. Hernandez
Gregg C. Fonarow
Li Liang
JAMA
University of California, Los Angeles
Duke University
Cleveland Clinic
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Hernandez et al. (Tue,) studied this question.
www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69d89b1cde3177251abedba1 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.298.13.1525