Causes and predictors of early readmission after percutaneous coronary intervention among patients discharged on oral anticoagulant therapy.

ABSTRACT: Patients discharged on oral anticoagulant (OAC) therapy after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) represent a complex population and are at higher risk of early readmission. The reasons and predictors of early readmission in this group have not been well characterized. We identified patients in an integrated health care system who underwent PCI between 2009 and 2014 and were readmitted within 30 days within this health care system. Of the 9,357 patients surviving to discharge after the index PCI, 692 were readmitted within 30 days (7.4%). At the time of readmission, 143 had been discharged from the index PCI hospitalization on OACs (96.5% on warfarin) and 549 had not been discharged on OACs, with readmission rates of 12.9% and 6.7%, respectively (p<0.01). The most common reason for re

SUBMITTER: Vidula MK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6209191 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature