Lifetime Healthcare and Long-Term Care Costs of Heart Failure: Estimates Using Administrative Data from Hospitalized Patients in the Netherlands.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objective

Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical syndrome associated with high mortality and extensive healthcare use. Using longitudinal data, we aimed to estimate the lifetime healthcare and long-term care (LTC) use and costs of Dutch patients with HF.

Methods

We used linked administrative data on mortality, LTC, and healthcare use covering the entire Dutch population for the period 2013-2024. Newly diagnosed patients with HF were defined as patients who were not hospitalized for HF 2 years before their index hospitalization for HF in 2015. Using regression modeling, we estimated hospitalized patients' life expectancy and lifetime healthcare costs as a function of age, sex, comorbidity, and income (all costs were adjusted to 2021 values).

Results

We

SUBMITTER: Mokri H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12534320 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature