Population
5,074 adults discharged from 251 hospitals with a diagnosis of heart failure, mean age 80, 58% male, based…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
30 days
Authors
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Patient factors largely explain 30-day HF readmission and mortality risk, with negligible hospital variation; leaves open use of these metrics for hospital benchmarking.
High 30-day readmission and mortality rates in heart failure patients are primarily driven by patient-level factors rather than hospital-level variation, suggesting limitations in using these outcomes as hospital performance measures.
Korda et al. (2017) studied this question.
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