2022
Cardiac Status Among Heart Failure Patients With Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators Before, During, and After COVID-19 Lockdown
Lu Y, Jones PW, Murugiah K, Caraballo C, Mahajan S, Massey D, Ahmed R, Bader E, Krumholz H. Cardiac Status Among Heart Failure Patients With Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators Before, During, and After COVID-19 Lockdown. Journal Of Cardiac Failure 2022, 28: 1372-1374. PMID: 35690314, PMCID: PMC9187866, DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2022.05.012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsImplantable cardioverter defibrillatorHeart failure patientsCRT-D devicesCardiac statusFailure patientsHeart failureCardioverter defibrillatorCardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillatorAcute cardiac conditionsMedical care deliveryInpatient careCardiac conditionsPhysiologic markersInpatient servicesPatientsCardiac healthCare deliveryMarked restrictionImplanted ICDsMinneapolis/Saint PaulSex subgroupsDefibrillatorCOVID-19Telemedicine servicesCOVID-19 lockdown
2018
Quantifying the utilization of medical devices necessary to detect postmarket safety differences: A case study of implantable cardioverter defibrillators
Bates J, Parzynski CS, Dhruva SS, Coppi A, Kuntz R, Li S, Marinac‐Dabic D, Masoudi FA, Shaw RE, Warner F, Krumholz HM, Ross JS. Quantifying the utilization of medical devices necessary to detect postmarket safety differences: A case study of implantable cardioverter defibrillators. Pharmacoepidemiology And Drug Safety 2018, 27: 848-856. PMID: 29896873, PMCID: PMC6436550, DOI: 10.1002/pds.4565.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAdverse event ratesSafety differencesEvent ratesMedical device utilizationICD utilizationRate ratioNational Cardiovascular Data RegistryICD modelsImplantable cardioverter defibrillatorEvent rate ratioMost patientsCardioverter defibrillatorProportion of individualsAmerican CollegeData registryRoutine surveillanceSample size estimatesAverage event rateDevice utilizationSignificance levelDifferencesPatientsRegistryDefibrillatorICD
2004
Management of implantable cardioverter defibrillators in end-of-life care.
Goldstein NE, Lampert R, Bradley E, Lynn J, Krumholz HM. Management of implantable cardioverter defibrillators in end-of-life care. Annals Of Internal Medicine 2004, 141: 835-8. PMID: 15583224, DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-141-11-200412070-00006.Peer-Reviewed Original Research