Accepted Manuscript Title: Is 30-Day Mortality after Admission for Heart Failure an Appropriate Metric for Quality? Author: Robert T. Faillace, Gregory W. Yost, Yashasvi Chugh, Jeffrey Adams, Beni R. Verma, Zaid Said, Ibrahim Ismail Sayed, Ashley Honushefsky, Sanjay Doddamani, Peter B. Berger PII: S0002-9343(17)30936-1 DOI: https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.09.007 Reference: AJM 14282 To appear in: The American Journal of Medicine Please cite this article as: Robert T. Faillace, Gregory W. Yost, Yashasvi Chugh, Jeffrey Adams, Beni R. Verma, Zaid Said, Ibrahim Ismail Sayed, Ashley Honushefsky, Sanjay Doddamani, Peter B. Berger, Is 30-Day Mortality after Admission for Heart Failure an Appropriate Metric for Quality?, The American Journal of Medicine (2017), https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.09.007. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.