Heart Failure Re-Admission: Measuring the Ever Shortening Gap between Repeat Heart Failure Hospitalizations
Population
40,667 patients with heart failure (population-based cohort)
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
up to 5 years
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Supports using inter-hospitalization intervals as HF treatment metrics beyond first event; leaves open whether extension improves outcomes.
Structured PICO
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Population
40,667 patients with heart failure (population-based cohort)
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Outcome
Time between repeat hospitalizations (HF and all-cause) and transition probabilities between clinical stateshard clinical
The gap between successive hospitalizations in heart failure patients progressively shortens, suggesting that extending this gap should be a key metric in treatment evaluation rather than just time to first event.
Cite This Study
Bakal et al. (2014) studied this question.