Swedish hospitals perform homogeneously well for heart failure care, with patient-level factors (age, previous hospitalizations) being the primary predictors of 30-day mortality rather than the treating institution.
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Patient factors drive 30-day HF mortality prediction; hypothesis-generating for uniform hospital performance and targeted interventions.
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