Heart failure & cardiomyopathies
Multiregional Implementation Initiative’s Impact on Guideline-Based Performance Measures for Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure: IMPLEMENT-HF
Authors' conclusion
Among healthcare systems participating in IMPLEMENT-HF, there was a marked increase in QMT use among eligible patients over the course of the initiative. This quality improvement initiative supports a learning collaborative model to promote improvements in QMT use.
Study context
- Population
- Patients hospitalized with HF with reduced ejection fraction at hospitals participating in Get With The Guidelines-HF that volunteered for IMPLEMENT-HFadmitted patients at 61 hospitals
- Participants
- 43,558 patients
- Comparison
- Quadruple medical therapy (QMT) utilization between Q1 2021 and Q2 2023
- Outcome
- Defect-free QMT at discharge
- Follow-up
- Q1 2021 to Q2 2023
Methodological details7 US regions, hospitals participating in the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-HF
- 7 US regions
- Hospitals participating in the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-HF
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Q1 2021
4.7%
Q2 2023
44.6%
Further findings
Defect-free QMT at 30 days · Q1 2021 to Q2 2023
- Q1 2021
- 0%
- Q2 2023
- 44.8%
- P <0.0001
Health-related social needs assessments
- Substantially improved incorporation
Baseline characteristics
- Median (interquartile range) age, years
- 74 (63-83)
- Racial and ethnic minorities
- 16 530 (38%)
- Women
- 22 228 (51%)
Improvements stratified by sex, race and ethnicity, and region
- Magnitude of improvements similar when stratified by sex or race and ethnicity
- Significant regional variation
Original publication
Multiregional Implementation Initiative’s Impact on Guideline-Based Performance Measures for Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure: IMPLEMENT-HF. Circ Heart Fail. Published 21 March 2025. doi:10.
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