Initiation of domiciliary care and nursing home admission following first hospitalization of heart failure patients: a nationwide cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Heart failure (HF) has a major impact on a patient's quality of life and functional status. This impact may be sufficiently profound to prevent independent living although how often this is the case is unknown. We examined the need for domiciliary assistance and admission to a nursing home following first HF hospitalization.

Methods

In nationwide Danish registries, we identified a cohort of patients discharged alive after a first-time HF hospitalization in the period 2008-2014 who were matched 1:5 with comparison subjects based on age and sex and followed for 5 years.

Results

We included 37,547 patients (69% men) discharged after a first-time HF-hospitalization and 187,735 comparison subjects. The 5-year incidence of initiation of domiciliary care was 24.1%

SUBMITTER: Rorth R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6080879 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature