National Trends in Heart Failure Hospitalizations and Readmissions From 2010 to 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Previous studies have described the secular trends of overall heart failure (HF) hospitalizations, but the literature describing the national trends of unique index hospitalizations and readmission visits for the primary management of HF is lacking.

Objectives

To examine contemporary overall and sex-specific trends of unique primary HF (grouped by number of visits for the same patient in a given year) and 30-day readmission visits in a large national US administrative database from 2010 to 2017.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used data from all adult hospitalizations in the Nationwide Readmission Database from January 1, 2010, to December 31, 2017, with a primary diagnosis of HF. Data analyses were conducted from March to November 2020.

SUBMITTER: Agarwal MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7876620 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature