Characteristics, Management, and Outcomes of Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure in China: The China PEACE Retrospective Heart Failure Study.

ABSTRACT: Background Heart failure (HF) is an emerging epidemic in China and accounts for significant healthcare resource utilization in the inpatient setting. To create evidence-based, life-saving, and cost-saving hospitalization systems, the first step is to characterize the contemporary national landscape of inpatient HF care. Methods and Results In the China PEACE 5r-HF study (China Patient-centered evaluative Assessment of Cardiac Events Retrospective Study of Heart Failure), we used 2-stage random sampling to create a nationally representative cohort of 10 004 admissions for HF from 189 hospitals in 2015 in China. Data on patient characteristics, management, and outcomes were obtained through centralized medical record abstraction. The median age of the cohort was 73 years (interquartile range

SUBMITTER: Yu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6755852 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature