Clinicians & Providers

• Cardiovascular Disease and Risk in Primary Care Settings in the United States
• Improving Care for People With Coronary Artery Disease
• Learn the Signs and Treatments for Heart Disease
• Library of Resources for Heart Disease
• Screening for Coronary Heart Disease
• Treatment to Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death

Policymaker Resources

• Cardiovascular Disease and Risk in Primary Care Settings in the United States

Fact Sheets

September 1 2012 20120901

Improving Care for People With Coronary Artery Disease

September 1 2012 20120901

Treatment to Prevent Sudden Cardiac Death

Other Research & Data

• American Heart Association
• Cardiovascular Disease and Risk in Primary Care Settings in the United States
• Making a Difference: Heart to Heart
• Stress Imaging Use and Repeat Revascularization Among Medicare Patients with High-Risk Coronary Artery Disease

Press Releases

August 15 2011 20110815

New Spanish-Language Guides Inform Decisions about Heart Disease and Other Illnesses

January 28 2010 20100128

AHRQ and American College of Cardiology Collaborate on Study of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

News & Numbers

October 27 2011 20111027

Heart Disease, Cancer and Trauma-Related Disorders Among the Most Costly Conditions for Men

Other News & Events

• AHRQ adds new guides to supplement ischemic heart disease comparative effectiveness review
• AHRQ and the American College of Cardiology collaborate on study of implantable cardioverter defibrillators
• Aldosterone antagonist therapy at hospital discharge linked to modest reduced risk of rehospitalization for heart failure
• Beta blockers are underused in patients receiving implantable cardioverter defibrillators
• Bundled payments for heart failure disease management programs can save money while reducing readmissions
• Early followup with a physician reduces readmissions for Medicare patients hospitalized for heart failure
• Evidence-based care processes are associated with improved outcomes for heart failure
• Full use of evidence-based therapies for heart failure could save nearly 70,000 lives each year
• Heart attack victims should use emergency transport services, not self or family to get to the hospital
• Heart disease, cancer, and mental disease among the most costly conditions for women
• Heart disease, cancer, and trauma-related disorders among the most costly conditions for men
• Hepatitis C infection does not increase the risk for heart attack
• Hospital deaths from heart failure cut by half over 7 years
• Minimally invasive heart treatments have reduced bypass surgeries and influenced valve repair and replacement
• New Spanish-language guides inform decisions about heart disease and other illnesses
• Patients with financial worries or no insurance delay going to the hospital for a heart attack
• Potentially avoidable hospitalizations for heart failure lowest in mountain States
• Quality measures are not used with all patients who suffer heart attacks
• Risks, benefits of emerging heart valve replacement technique not fully understood
• Stress Imaging Use and Repeat Revascularization Among Medicare Patients with High-Risk Coronary Artery Disease
• Studies examine possible disparities surrounding implantable cardioverter defibrillators