Heart Failure in Primary Care Measuring the Quality of Care

Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the New York State Department of Health, Health Quality and Information Unit. It also was supported in part by a Family Practice Research Center grant from the American Academy of Family Physicians. We thank Erin Cleary for her assistance with manuscript preparation and Kevin Grumbach, MD, for reviewing an earlier version of the manuscript. We also thank the physicians and staff in the participating practices of the Western New York Practice Based Research Network, including: John Brewer, MD, and Roberta Gebhard, MD, Upper West Side Family Health Center; Arunas A. Budnikas, MD; Daniel Cracium, MD; Farmington Family Practice; John C. Dickinson, MD, and Ronald M. Epstein, MD, Highland Family Medicine Center; Paul A. Frame, MD, Tri-County Family Medicine; Samuel K. Gooldy, MD; Cynthia E. Hadley, MD; Karl F. Hafner, MD; Jeffrey L. Hanson, MD; David P. Haswell, MD, Bassett Healthcare; Peter Kowalski, MD; William R. Kuehling, MD; Herbert A. Laughlin, MD; Thomas P. Lawrence, MD, Cuba Family Health Center; Emanuel Y. Li, MD; North Rochester Family Medicine; David M. Newman, MD; Arun Patel, MD; Raghu Ram, MD; Richard J. Ruh, MD, Orchard Park Family Practice; Timothy Siepel, MD; William Stephan, MD; Louis Lazar Family Medicine Center; and Tri-County Family Medicine Faculty Associates.