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Heart Failure Care Quality Measures -
Patients Given an Assessment of their Left Ventricular Function (LVF)
Heart failure, sometimes called congestive heart failure, occurs when the heart muscle weakens and can not pump as much blood as the body requires. As a result, the body doesn’t get enough oxygen and nutrients to meet its needs. Heart failure is a very common reason for hospitalization of elderly patients, but may occur in younger patients as well. The quality measures in this section show some of the medically accepted standards for the care of heart failure, as well as whether patients leave the hospital with medications and instructions known to be helpful.
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Click here to view the heart attack care quality measures for the CHRISTUS Health system as a whole.
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Percent of Patients Given an Assessment of their Left Ventricular Function (LVF)
This percentage addresses the ratio of heart failure patients who can prove (through documentation) that their left ventricular function (LVF) was assessed before arrival, during hospitalization, or is planned following discharge from the hospital. A LVF assessment checks how the left chamber of the heart is pumping. Identifying patients with LVF is important so their physicians can ensure that their condition in properly evaluated and their care is properly managed.
The data used to compute the indicator percentage for the system overall and each individual facility was collected from January 2009 to March 2009.
