Timing of cardiac resynchronization therapy device implantation in heart failure patients and its association with outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

When used in appropriately selected heart failure (HF) patients, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) reduces mortality and hospitalization. It is not understood whether CRT implantation during hospitalization for HF is associated with similar benefits.

Hypothesis

Timing of CRT implantation relative to hospitalization for HF is associated with clinical outcomes.

Methods

This analysis included patients eligible for CRT and discharged alive between January 2005 and December 2012 from 388 hospitals in Get With The Guidelines-HF. Participants were linked with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data to evaluate outcomes of all-cause mortality and HF re-hospitalization based on CRT status (present on admission, placed during hospitalization, and prescr

SUBMITTER: Goldstein SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6386168 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature