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HomeCirculationVol. 148, No. 3American Heart Association Program Aims to Boost Hispanic or Latino Clinician Representation in Cardiology No AccessNewsRequest AccessFull TextAboutView Full TextView PDFView EPUBSections ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationsTrack citationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InMendeleyReddit Jump toNo AccessNewsRequest AccessFull TextAmerican Heart Association Program Aims to Boost Hispanic or Latino Clinician Representation in Cardiology Bridget M. Kuehn Bridget M. KuehnBridget M. Kuehn https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8783-4419 Originally published17 Jul 2023https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.064251Circulation. 2023;148:278–279"American Heart Association Program Aims to Boost Hispanic or Latino Clinician Representation in Cardiology." Circulation, 148(3), pp. 278–279FootnotesThe opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the editors or of the American Heart Association.Circulation is available at www.ahajournals.org/journal/circREFERENCES1. Virani SS, Alonso A, Aparicio HJ, Benjamin EJ, Bittencourt MS, Callaway CW, Carson AP, Chamberlain AM, Cheng S, Delling FN, et al; American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Heart disease and stroke statistics-2021 update: a report from the American Heart Association.Circulation. 2021; 143:e254–e743. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000950LinkGoogle Scholar2. US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health. Profile: Hispanic/Latino Americans.Accessed April 4, 2023. https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=3&lvlid=64#:~:text=According%20to%202020%20Census%20data,group%20after%20non%2DHispanic%20whitesGoogle Scholar3. UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute. A mosaic, not a monolith: profile of the US Latino population, 2000-2020.Accessed January 10, 2023. https://latino.ucla.edu/research/latino-population-2000-2020Google Scholar4. AAMC. Diversity in medicine: facts and figures 2019.Accessed June 12, 2020. https://www.aamc.org/data-reports/workforce/interactive-data/figure-18-percentage-all-active-physicians-race/ethnicity-2018Google Scholar5. Sabin JA. Tackling implicit bias in health care.N Engl J Med. 2022; 387:105–107. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2201180CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar6. Takeshita J, Wang S, Loren AW, Mitra N, Shults J, Shin DB, Sawinski DL. Association of racial/ethnic and gender concordance between patients and physicians with patient experience ratings.JAMA Netw Open. 2020; 3:e2024583. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.24583CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar7. American Heart Association. Championing health equity for all.Accessed January 10, 2023. https://www.heart.org/en/about-us/2024-health-equity-impact-goalGoogle Scholar8. American Heart Association. Representation matters, especially when it comes to your health: the American Heart Association's National Hispanic Latino Cardiovascular Collaborative will bring awareness to heart health for all.Accessed June 12, 2020. https://newsroom.heart.org/news/representation-matters-especially-when-it-comes-to-your-healthGoogle Scholar eLetters(0)eLetters should relate to an article recently published in the journal and are not a forum for providing unpublished data. Comments are reviewed for appropriate use of tone and language. Comments are not peer-reviewed. Acceptable comments are posted to the journal website only. Comments are not published in an issue and are not indexed in PubMed. Comments should be no longer than 500 words and will only be posted online. References are limited to 10. Authors of the article cited in the comment will be invited to reply, as appropriate.Comments and feedback on AHA/ASA Scientific Statements and Guidelines should be directed to the AHA/ASA Manuscript Oversight Committee via its Correspondence page.Sign In to Submit a Response to This Article Previous Back to top Next FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails July 18, 2023Vol 148, Issue 3 Advertisement Article InformationMetrics © 2023 American Heart Association, Inc.https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.064251PMID: 37459410 Originally publishedJuly 17, 2023 PDF download Advertisement

HomeCirculationVol. 147, No. 10Collaborative Care Model Helps Patients With Heart Failure Meet End-of-Life Goals No AccessNewsRequest AccessFull TextAboutView Full TextView PDFView EPUBSections ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload citationsTrack citationsPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InMendeleyReddit Jump toNo AccessNewsRequest AccessFull TextCollaborative Care Model Helps Patients With Heart Failure Meet End-of-Life Goals Bridget M. Kuehn Bridget M. KuehnBridget M. Kuehn https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8783-4419 Originally published6 Mar 2023https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.063315Circulation. 2023;147:841–842"Collaborative Care Model Helps Patients With Heart Failure Meet End-of-Life Goals." Circulation, 147(10), pp. 841–842FootnotesThe opinions expressed in this article are not necessarily those of the editors or of the American Heart Association.Circulation is available at www.ahajournals.org/journal/circReferences1. Quinn KL, Stukel TA, Campos E, Graham C, Kavalieratos D, Mak S, Steinberg L, Tanuseputro P, Tuna M, Isenberg SR. Regional collaborative home-based palliative care and health care outcomes among adults with heart failure.CMAJ. 2022; 194:E1274–E1282. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.220784CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. Campos E, Isenberg SR, Lovblom LE, Mak S, Steinberg L, Bush SH, Goldman R, Graham C, Kavalieratos D, Stukel T, et al. Supporting the heterogeneous and evolving treatment preferences of patients with heart failure through collaborative home-based palliative care.J Am Heart Assoc. 2022; 11:e026319. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.122.026319LinkGoogle Scholar3. Khera R, Pandey A, Link MS, Sulistio MS. Managing implantable cardioverter-defibrillators at end-of-life: practical challenges and care considerations.Am J Med Sci. 2019; 357:143–150. doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2018.11.016CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar Previous Back to top Next FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails March 7, 2023Vol 147, Issue 10 Advertisement Article InformationMetrics © 2023 American Heart Association, Inc.https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.063315PMID: 36877767 Originally publishedMarch 6, 2023 PDF download Advertisement