ArticleHeart and vessels2014
Weekend versus weekday hospital admission and outcomes during hospitalization for patients due to worsening heart failure: a report from Japanese Cardiac Registry of Heart Failure in Cardiology (JCARE-CARD).
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- Time Course Changes in Urinary Angiotensinogen and Circulating N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide in Patients Hospitalized with Acute Heart Failure.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2020Article
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- Taking a Day Off in the Care of Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: The Weekend Effect.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2019Article
- In-Hospital and Postdischarge Mortality Among Patients With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Hospitalizations Ending on the Weekend Versus Weekday: The ARIC Study Community Surveillance.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2019Observational
- Assessment of Time-Series Machine Learning Methods for Forecasting Hospital Discharge Volume.JAMA network open · 2018Article
- Favorable effects of early tolvaptan administration in very elderly patients after repeat hospitalizations for acute decompensated heart failure.Heart and vessels · 2018Article
- Early use of V2 receptor antagonists is associated with a shorter hospital stay and reduction in in-hospital death in patients with decompensated heart failure.Heart and vessels · 2016Article
- Increased p-cresyl sulfate level is independently associated with poor outcomes in patients with heart failure.Heart and vessels · 2016Article
- Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation in patients with severely impaired left ventricular systolic function.Heart and vessels · 2016Article
- Seasonal variation in patients with acute heart failure: prognostic impact of admission in the summer.Heart and vessels · 2015Article
- The impact of day of surgery on the length of stay for major urological procedures.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du CanadaArticle
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Abstract
The day of the week of admission may influence the length of stay and in-hospital death. However, the association between the admission day of the week and in-hospital outcomes has been inconsistent in heart failure (HF) patients among studies reported from Western countries. We thus analyzed this association in HF patients encountered in routine clinical practice in Japan. We studied the characteristics and in-hospital treatment in 1620 patients hospitalized with worsening HF by using the database of the Japanese Cardiac Registry of Heart Failure in Cardiology (JCARE-CARD). Patients were divided into two groups according to weekday (n = 1355; 83.6%) or weekend admission (n = 265; 16.4%). The mean age was 70.7 years and 59.4% were male. Etiology was ischemic in 34.0%, and mean left ventricular ejection fraction was 42.5%. Patients admitted on the weekend were significantly older and had more comorbidities, and more severe symptoms and signs of HF on admission. Length of stay was comparable between weekend and weekday admission (35.2 ± 47.0 days vs 33.6 ± 32.0 days, P = 0.591). Crude in-hospital mortality did not differ between patients admitted on the weekend and weekdays (7.5% vs 5.2%, P = 0.136). Even after adjustment for covariates in multivariable modeling with patients admitted on weekday as the reference, in-hospital death was comparable between patients admitted on the weekend and weekdays (adjusted odds ratio 1.125, 95% confidence interval 0.631-2.004, P = 0.691). Among patients hospitalized for worsening HF, admission day of the week did not affect in-hospital death and length of stay.
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