Health care utilization and mortality associated with heart failure-related admissions among cancer patients.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

Heart failure (HF) outcomes continue to improve with widespread use of new therapies. Concurrently, cancer survival has dramatically improved. Yet whether cancer patients share similar strategies and outcomes of inpatient HF treatment to those without HF is unknown. We sought to assess the contemporary impacts of cancer on inpatient HF outcomes over time.

Methods and results

The retrospective National Inpatient Sample (2003-15) and National Readmissions Database (2013-14) registries were queried for adults admitted for HF and stratified for cancer status, excluding cases of metastatic disease. Temporal trends in HF admissions, hospital charge rates, length of hospitalization, HF-related procedure utilization, in-hospital mortality, and hospital readmissions were analyse

SUBMITTER: Guha A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6676288 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature