Characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalized for heart failure in the United States: Rationale, design, and preliminary observations from the first 100,000 cases in the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE)

University of North Carolina Health Care, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of California, Los Angeles, Case Western Reserve University, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Edward Hospital, The Ohio State University, Hackensack University Medical Center, Montefiore Medical Center, Scion