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Review
Articles
Caring
for the Adult with Congenital Heart Disease: Management of Common Defects.
By
Reema Chugh, MD, FACC
Congenital
heart defects are common. Advances in pediatric medicine and surgery
have made it possible for nearly 85% of infants born with congenital
heart defects to survive into adulthood. This article reviews some of
the challenges of adults with congenital heart disease and offers practice
guidelines for clinicians.
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Systems Approaches to Improve Quality, Performance, and Efficiency in
the Care of Older Adults.
By
David B Reuben, MD
Using
the Assessing Care of the Vulnerable Elderly study (1 and 2), Reuben
reviews the current state of health care to identify barriers and to
explore individual and systems efforts to improve outpatient care.
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Clinical
Evidence Review: Best Practice
Heart
Failure.
By
Anthony E Steimle, MD, FACC
An overview,
with vignette, of the recently updated Care Management Institute's Heart
Failure Management Guidelines which addresses this major public health
challenge.
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