Nationwide trends in incidence, healthcare utilization, and mortality in hospitalized heart failure patients in Taiwan.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

The objective of this study was to estimate the nationwide annual incidence, healthcare utilization, and mortality among hospitalized heart failure (HF) patients in Taiwan.

Methods and results

People aged 20 years or older and having been newly admitted for HF between 2010 and 2015 were identified from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database. For 124 816 patients with incident HF hospitalizations between 2010 and 2012, we further analysed their treatment patterns, healthcare utilizations, and mortality during index hospitalization and within 3 years following discharge from the index hospitalization. The age-stratified incidences were declined by 10-20% in people aged 55 years or older, but increased by ~4% among people younger than 44 years old between 201

SUBMITTER: Wang TD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7755001 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature