National and Regional Trends in Heart Failure Hospitalization and Mortality Rates for Medicare Beneficiaries, 1998-2008
Population
55,097,390 fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized between 1998 and 2008 with a principal…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
1 year
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Discussion
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Implication
Declines in Medicare HF hospitalization and mortality support temporal outcome improvements; extends observational trends but leaves causes and disparities unresolved.
Structured PICO
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Population
55,097,390 fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized between 1998 and 2008 with a principal discharge diagnosis code for heart failure in acute care hospitals in the United States and Puerto Rico.
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Outcome
Changes in patient demographics and comorbidities, heart failure hospitalization rates, and 1-year mortality rateshard clinical
Between 1998 and 2008, heart failure hospitalization and 1-year mortality rates among Medicare beneficiaries declined significantly, though disparities persisted, particularly for black men.
Cite This Study
Chen et al. (2011) studied this question.