Costs and healthcare utilisation of patients with heart failure in Spain.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Increasing the knowledge about heart failure (HF) costs and their determinants is important to ascertain how HF management can be optimized, leading to a significant decrease of HF costs. This study evaluated the cumulative costs and healthcare utilisation in HF patients in Spain.

Methods

Observational, retrospective, population-based study using BIG-PAC database, which included data from specialized and primary care of people ≥18 years, from seven autonomous communities in Spain, who received care for HF between 2015 and 2019. The healthcare and medication costs were summarized on a yearly basis starting from the index date (1st January 2015), and then cumulatively until 2019.

Results

We identified 17,163 patients with HF (year 2015: mean age 77.3 ± 11.8 y

SUBMITTER: Escobar C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7576860 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature