Outpatient heart failure specialist care following acute heart failure hospitalisation improves long-term outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospitalisation with acute heart failure (AHF) carries a high risk of death, and those surviving to discharge remain at high risk of death or rehospitalisation with AHF. The impact of outpatient heart failure (HF) specialist care after discharge from AHF hospitalisation on longer-term outcomes is unclear in contemporary UK practice.

Methods

A retrospective analysis of a cohort of 2104 patients admitted to hospital due to AHF between 2014-2022 in a single UK county was performed. Patient characteristics, left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) (LVEF) category (HF with reduced EF (LVEF ≤40%; HFrEF), HF with mildy reduced EF (LVEF 41%-49%; HFmrEF) and HF with preserved EF (LVEF ≥50%; HFpEF)) and survival free from a composite end point of AHF rehospitalisation or dea

SUBMITTER: Raby J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12481318 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature