Healthcare resource utilisation and costs associated with a heart failure diagnosis: a retrospective, population-based cohort study in Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine healthcare resource use (HRU) and costs among heart failure (HF) patients using population data from Sweden.

Design

Retrospective, non-interventional cohort study.

Setting

Two cohorts were identified from linked national health registers (cohort 1, 2005-2014) and electronic medical records (cohort 2, 2010-2012; primary/secondary care patients from Uppsala and Västerbotten).

Participants

Patients (aged ≥18 years) with primary or secondary diagnoses of HF (≥2 International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th revision classification) during the identification period of January 2005 to March 2015 were included.

Outcome measures

HRU across the HF phenotypes was assessed with logistic regression. Costs were estima

SUBMITTER: Boman K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8527145 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature