Observational studyFamily practice2013
Heart failure in primary care: co-morbidity and utilization of health care resources.
Observational study in Family practice, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Cost of Chronic Heart Failure Among Adult Europeans-A Systematic Literature Review.PharmacoEconomics - open · 2026Pooled it
- Health care service usage and costs for high-needs elderly patients with heart failure.Journal of geriatric cardiology : JGC · 2020Article
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- Centre characteristics determine ambulatory care and referrals in patients with spondyloarthritis.Rheumatology international · 2016Article
- Use of hospital services by age and comorbidity after an index heart failure admission in England: an observational study.BMJ open · 2016Observational
- Patient comorbidities increase postoperative resource utilization after laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy.Surgical endoscopy · 2016Article
- Running away from side effects: physical exercise as a complementary intervention for breast cancer patients.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2015Review
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Abstract
backgroundIn order to ensure proper management of primary care (PC) services, the efficiency of the health professionals tasked with such services must be known. Patients with heart failure (HF) are characterized by advanced age, high co-morbidity and high resource utilization.
objectiveTo ascertain PC resource utilization by HF patients and variability in the management of such patients by GPs.
methodsDescriptive, cross-sectional study targeting a population attended by 129 GPs over the course of 1 year. All patients with diagnosis of HF in their clinical histories were included, classified using the Adjusted Clinical Group system and then grouped into six resource utilization bands (RUBs). Resource utilization and Efficiency Index were both calculated.
resultsOne hundred per cent of patients with HF were ranked in RUBs 3, 4 and 5. The highest GP visit rate was 20 and the lowest in excess of 10 visits per year. Prescription drug costs for these patients ranged from €885 to €1422 per patient per year. Health professional efficiency varied notably, even after adjustment for co-morbidity (Efficiency Index Variation Ratio of 28.27 for visits and 404.29 for prescription drug cost).
conclusionsPatients with HF register a high utilization of resources, and there is great variability in the management of such patients by health professionals, which cannot be accounted for by the degree of case complexity.
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