Home-Time After Discharge Among Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surveys of patients with cardiovascular disease have suggested that "home-time"-being alive and out of any health care institution-is a prioritized outcome. This novel measure has not been studied among patients with heart failure (HF).

Objectives

This study sought to characterize home-time following hospitalization for HF and assess its relationship with patient characteristics and traditionally reported clinical outcomes.

Methods

Using GWTG-HF (Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure) registry data, patients discharged alive from an HF hospitalization between 2011 and 2014 and ≥65 years of age were identified. Using Medicare claims, post-discharge home-time over 30-day and 1-year follow-up was calculated for each patient as the number of days alive and spen

SUBMITTER: Greene SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6742493 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature