Public assistance in patients with acute heart failure: a report from the KCHF registry.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

There is a scarcity of data on the post-discharge prognosis in acute heart failure (AHF) patients with a low-income but receiving public assistance. The study sought to evaluate the differences in the clinical characteristics and outcomes between AHF patients receiving public assistance and those not receiving public assistance.

Methods and results

The Kyoto Congestive Heart Failure registry was a physician-initiated, prospective, observational, multicentre cohort study enrolling 4056 consecutive patients who were hospitalized due to AHF for the first time between October 2014 and March 2016. The present study population consisted of 3728 patients who were discharged alive from the index AHF hospitalization. We divided the patients into two groups, those receiving publi

SUBMITTER: Nishimoto Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9065832 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature