Number of Cardiologists per Cardiovascular Beds and In-Hospital Mortality for Acute Heart Failure: A Nationwide Study in Japan.

ABSTRACT: Background Little evidence is available about the number of cardiologists required for appropriate treatment of heart failure (HF). Our objective was to determine the association between the number of cardiologists per cardiology beds for treating patients with acute HF and in-hospital mortality. Methods and Results This was a cross-sectional study, and we used the Japanese Registry of All Cardiac and Vascular Diseases Diagnosis Procedure Combination discharge database. The data of patients with HF on emergency admission from April 1, 2012, to March 31, 2014, were extracted. The patients were categorized into 4 groups by the quartiles of the numbers of cardiologists per 50 cardiovascular beds (first group: median, 4.4 [interquartile range, 3.5-5.0]; second group: median, 6.7 [interquartile

SUBMITTER: Kanaoka K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6818015 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature