Place of residence and outcomes of patients with heart failure: analysis from the telemonitoring to improve heart failure outcomes trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent studies show an association between neighborhood-level measures of socioeconomic status (SES) and outcomes for patients with heart failure. We do not know whether neighborhood SES has a primary effect or is a marker for individual SES.

Methods and results

We used the data from participants of the Telemonitoring to Improve Heart Failure Outcomes (Tele-HF) trial, recruited from 33 US internal medicine and cardiology practices and examined the association between neighborhood SES and outcomes of patients with heart failure. We used census tracts as proxies for neighborhoods and constructed summary SES scores that included information about wealth and income, education, and occupation. The primary end points were readmission and all-cause mortality at 6 months.

SUBMITTER: Bikdeli B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5323058 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature