Circulation On The Run

Dr Carolyn Lam:                Welcome to Circulation on the Run, your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and its editors. I'm Dr. Carolyn Lam, Associate Editor from the National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. Does NT-proBNP-guided therapy improve outcomes in acute decompensated heart failure? Well the Prima II trial results are coming right up after these summaries.                                 Is hospital volume a good structural metric assessing the quality of care in heart failure? Well, in the first original paper this week from Dr. Kumbhani and colleagues at UT Southwestern Medical Center, authors determined the relationship between admission volume, process of care metrics, and short and long-term outcomes admitted with acute heart failure in the Get With the Guidelines-Heart Failure registry, which has linked Medicare in patient data at 342 hospitals.                                 They found that lower volume hospitals had worse adherence to import