Table 2. Heart Failure (HF)-Specific Interventions at an Advanced Stage of Implementation,Across Respondent Hospitals (n = 16), 2012 Surveya.
| HF-specific interventionb | Hospitalc | No. (%) of hospitals | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | C | D | E | H | I | B | K | G | F | J | L | M | N | O | P | ||
| Inpatient HF team | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 12 (75) | ||||
| HF admission order set | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 10 (63) | ||||||
| Advanced HF clinic | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 7 (44) | |||||||||
| Emergency department HF management protocol | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3 (19) | |||||||||||||
| Total no.of interventions | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — |
Respondent hospitals were part of the Variations Collaborative Study Group, a convenience sample of 14 U.S. academic medical centers, representing 17 affiliated hospitals.
Interventions are ordered from the most common to the least common (top to bottom).
Each check mark represents an advanced stage of implementation of the specified intervention (i.e., for ≥75% of heart failure patients on the cardiology service or on all services) as of May 2012.Hospitals are ordered from those that implemented the most HF-specific interventions to those that implemented the fewest (left to right). Hospital letters correspond to the total number of HF-specific and care transition interventions implemented at an advanced stage, from the most (Hospital A) to the fewest (Hospital P).