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Editorials

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Scholarship to Improve Health and Health Care for Patients and Populations

Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM

From the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Internal Medicine; Section of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine; and Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale–New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.

Correspondence to Dr Harlan M. Krumholz, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, PO Box 208088, New Haven, CT 06520-8088. E-mail harlan.krumholz@yale.edu

Key Words: Editorials • outcomes assessment • publishing

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The launch of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes occurs during a time in which the healthcare system is simultaneously achieving its greatest triumphs and facing its most daunting challenges. As a profession, we are manifesting remarkable advances in our ability to understand, prevent, and treat cardiovascular disease and stroke, yet there are vast gaps in our ability to preempt, mitigate, and cure these conditions. Often, these gaps derive from a lack of evidence about how best to provide care and public health interventions, how best to prioritize resources, and how best to work collaboratively with and in the best interests of the public and our patients.

Scholarship is needed to promote improvements in cardiovascular and stroke health and health care, focusing on the end results of our efforts. Outcomes research provides evidence to support efforts to achieve safe, effective, efficient, equitable, timely, and patient-centered care.¹ We envision the journal as a venue for content of consequence—a home for outstanding science, commentary, and novel ideas. The journal will be a catalyst for good science with practical implications and a means to inspire junior people to engage in scholarly activities that have practical applicability.

The mission of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes is to improve clinical decision making, population health, and healthcare policy. Moreover, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes aspires to play a leading role in strengthening the global community dedicated to eliminating the epidemic of cardiovascular disease and stroke. This will be accomplished through a format that promotes scholarship, education, and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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