ArticleCurrent heart failure reports2014
Outcomes in acute heart failure: 30-day readmission versus death.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Risk stratification scores for patients with acute heart failure in the Emergency Department: A systematic review.European heart journal. Acute cardiovascular care · 2020Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Transition Care Intervention Targeted to High-Risk Patients to Reduce Readmissions: Study Protocol for the TARGET-READ Multicenter Randomized-Controlled Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- PROCESS AND SYSTEMS: A cohort study to evaluate the impact of service centralisation for emergency admissions with acute heart failure.Future healthcare journal · 2019Article
- Red Blood Cell Distribution Width Improves Reclassification of Patients Admitted to the Emergency Department with Acute Decompensated Heart Failure.Journal of medical biochemistry · 2018Article
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Abstract
For patients hospitalized with acute heart failure, health policy initiatives in the USA have drawn attention to 30-day mortality and readmission. Confusion around definitions, populations, and thus reported rates for these two outcomes is common. Among Medicare fee-for-service patients hospitalized with heart failure, all-cause mortality 30 days from the time of admission is 11.7 % and all-cause unplanned readmission 30 days from discharge is 23.0 %. Rates for Medicaid and commercially insured patients are lower. Mortality rates have been relatively stable, while readmission rates increased under the Diagnosis Related Group payment system then began decreasing under the Hospital Readmission Reductions Program. Risk models are reasonable at predicting mortality, whereas readmission has been harder to anticipate. The use of risk-standardized hospital rates as performance measures has generated considerable debate. Future work should clarify the interaction between the two measures, the optimal time window and factors influencing rates and trends-including socioeconomic status.
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