8th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke

Abstracts
8th Scientific Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research in Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke
May 9–11, 2007 Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC
Sponsored by the American Heart Association’s Quality of Care and Outcomes. Research Interdisciplinary Working Group. Cosponsored by the Councils on Cardiovascular Nursing, Clinical Cardiology, and Stroke
Conference Program Committee
John A. Spertus, MD, MPH, Conference Chair; John S. Rumsfeld, MD, PhD, Conference
Vice-chair Ralph G. Brindis, MD, MPH, FACC; Kim C. Coley, PharmD; Elizabeth R. DeLong, PhD; T. Bruce Ferguson, Jr, MD; Matthew E. Fitzgerald, DrPH; William A. Ghali, MD; David C. Goff, Jr, MD, PhD, FAHA; Edward P. Havranek, MD; Kathy A. Hebert, MD, MMM, MPH; Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM; Frederick A. Masoudi, MD, MSPH; Rita F. Redberg, MD, MSc, FACC; Anne Sales, MSN, PhD; Lee H. Schwamm, MD, FAHA; Richard E. Shaw, MA, PhD, FACC, FACA; Henry H. Ting, MD, MBA
Increasingly there is interest in efforts to assess and improve clinical and health care delivery
performance. This has been the focus of the Forum on Quality of Care and Outcomes Research. The meeting is held annually in Washington, DC and includes workshops, plenary sessions, concurrent sessions, and both oral and poster abstract presentations. This year, abstracts were accepted from more than 15 countries covering broad topics in outcomes research.