Readmissions Following a Hospitalization for Cardiovascular Events in Dialysis Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospitalization for cardiovascular disease (CVD) is common among patients receiving maintenance dialysis, but patterns of readmissions following cardiovascular events are underexplored.

Methods and results

In this retrospective analysis of prevalent, Medicare-eligible patients receiving dialysis in 2012-2013, all live-discharge hospitalizations attributed to CVD were ascertained. Rates of all-cause, CVD-related, and non-CVD-related readmissions and death in the ensuing 10 and 30 days were calculated. Multinomial logistic modeling was used to assess the relationship between potential explanatory factors and outcomes of interest. Among 142 210 analyzed hospitalizations, mean age at time of index CVD hospitalization was 64.9±14.1 years; 50.4% of index hospitalization

SUBMITTER: Wetmore JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5850182 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature