Burden of hospitalizations in newly diagnosed heart failure patients in Poland: real world population based study in years 2013-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

We aim to report trends in unplanned hospitalizations among newly diagnosed heart failure patients with regard to hospitalizations types and their impact on outcomes.

Methods and results

A nation-wide study of all citizens in Poland with newly diagnosed heart failure based on ICD-10 coding who were beneficiaries of either public primary, secondary, or hospital care between 2013 and 2018 in Poland. Between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2019, there were 1 124 118 newly diagnosed heart failure patients in Poland in both out- and inpatient settings. The median observation time was 946 days. As many as 49% experienced at least one acute heart failure hospitalization. Once hospitalized, 44.6% patients experienced at least one all-cause rehospitalization and 26% another heart

SUBMITTER: Leszek P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9065864 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature