ArticleJournal of the American Heart Association2017
Patients With Heart Failure Readmitted to the Original Hospital Have Better Outcomes Than Those Readmitted Elsewhere.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of Medical Costs Associated with Heart Failure in the USA (2014-2020).PharmacoEconomics · 2020Pooled it
- Patient Outcomes Following Interhospital Care Fragmentation: A Systematic Review.Journal of general internal medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Effects of a standardized community health worker intervention on hospitalization among disadvantaged patients with multiple chronic conditions: A pooled analysis of three clinical trials.Health services research · 2020Trial
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- Data-driven insights into interhospital care fragmentation: Implications for health policy and equity among older adults.PloS one · 2025Article
- Advancing a virtual home hospital: a blueprint for development and expansion.BMJ open quality · 2024Article
- Care fragmentation and readmission mortality and length of stay before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: data from the National Readmissions Database, 2018-2020.BMC health services research · 2024Observational
- Electronic connectivity between hospital pairs: impact on emergency department-related utilization.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2023Article
- Care Fragmentation Following Hospitalization for Atrial Fibrillation in the United States.JACC. Advances · 2023Article
- Association of Fragmented Readmissions and Electronic Information Sharing With Discharge Destination Among Older Adults.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- Ambulance use and subsequent fragmented hospital readmission among older adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2023Article
- Association of distance between hospitals and volume of shared admissions.BMC health services research · 2022Article
- Prevalence of and Mortality Associated with Cross-State Inpatient Care Fragmentation Among Older Adults in a Nationally Representative Dataset.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- Super fragmented: a nationally representative cross-sectional study exploring the fragmentation of inpatient care among super-utilizers.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Defragmenting Heart Failure Care: Medical Records Integration.Heart failure clinics · 2020Review
- Thirty-Day Nonindex Readmissions and Clinical Outcomes After Cardiac Surgery.The Annals of thoracic surgery · 2020Article
- Prescribing Patterns of Heart Failure-Exacerbating Medications Following a Heart Failure Hospitalization.JACC. Heart failure · 2020Article
- The Care Transitions Measure-3 Is Only Weakly Associated with Post-discharge Outcomes: a Retrospective Cohort Study in 48,384 Albertans.Journal of general internal medicine · 2019Article
- Readmissions After Acute Myocardial Infarction: How Often Do Patients Return to the Discharging Hospital?Journal of the American Heart Association · 2019Article
- Indications for β-Blocker Prescriptions in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2019Observational
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Abstract
backgroundUp to one fifth of readmissions after a heart failure hospitalization occur at a different hospital. This negatively impacts information continuity, but whether site of readmission impacts subsequent outcomes is unclear. METHODS AND
resultsRetrospective cohort study of all patients discharged with a primary diagnosis of heart failure in Canada between April 2004 and December 2013. We compared patients readmitted within 30 days to the original hospital versus a different hospital. Of the 217 039 heart failure patients (mean age, 76.8 years, 50.1% male), 39 368 (18.1%) were readmitted within 30 days-32 771 (83.2%) to the original hospital and 6597 (16.8%) to a different hospital (increasing over time from 15.6% in 2004 to 18.5% by 2013;
conclusionsReadmissions to a different hospital are becoming more frequent over time and are associated with longer stays and higher mortality rates than readmissions to the original hospital. Our findings provide further evidence that care fragmentation may be deleterious for patients with heart failure.
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