Acute Bacterial Infections and Longitudinal Risk of Readmissions and Mortality in Patients Hospitalized with Heart Failure.

ABSTRACT: Infections are associated with worse short-term outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF). However, acute infections may have lasting pathophysiologic effects that adversely influence HF outcomes after discharge. Our objective was to describe the impact of acute bacterial infections on longitudinal outcomes of patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of HF. This paper is based on a retrospective cohort study of patients hospitalized with a primary diagnosis of HF with or without a secondary diagnosis of acute bacterial infection in Optum Clinformatics DataMart from 2010-2015. Primary outcomes were 30 and 180-day hospital readmissions and mortality, intensive care unit admission, length of hospital stay, and total hospital charge, compared between those with or without an acute inf

SUBMITTER: Ng TMH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8836984 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature