The Association Between Patient-reported Clinical Factors and 30-day Acute Care Utilization in Chronic Heart Failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Heart failure patients have high rates of repeat acute care use. Current efforts for risk prediction often ignore postdischarge data.

Objective

To identify postdischarge patient-reported clinical factors associated with repeat acute care use.

Research design

In a prospective cohort study that followed patients with chronic heart failure for 30 days postdischarge, for 7 days after discharge (or fewer days if patients used acute care within 7 days postdischarge), patients reported health status, heart failure symptoms, medication management, knowledge of follow-up plans, and other issues using a daily interactive automatic phone call.

Subjects

A total of 156 patients who had responded to phone surveys.

Measures

The outcome variable was dichotomo

SUBMITTER: Chen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7069395 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature