Global, regional, and national burden and quality of care index of endocarditis: the global burden of disease study 1990-2019.
Sara MomtazmaneshSahar Saeedi MoghaddamElaheh Malakan RadSina AzadnajafabadNarges EbrahimiEsmaeil MohammadiMahtab RouhifardNegar RezaeiMasoud MasinaeiNazila RezaeiMohammad KeykhaeiArya AminorroayaAzin GhamariBagher LarijaniFarshad FarzadfarPublished in: European journal of preventive cardiology (2022)
This is the first global assessment of QCI, shedding light on the current trends and highlighting the necessity of improving the endocarditis QoC, mainly by timely case detection, adherence to antibiotic prophylaxis guidelines, utilizing targeted antibiotics and advanced treatments, in the African region and resolving gender inequality in selected countries.