Why the study?
Do repeat heart failure hospitalizations predict all-cause mortality in patients with heart failure?
Population
51,286 patients with an index admission for heart failure between 2007 and 2011 in the Military Health…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
up to 7 years (2007-2013)
Authors
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Highlights the prognostic urgency of preventing HF readmissions; extends observational evidence linking recurrent decompensation to mortality while.
Do repeat heart failure hospitalizations predict all-cause mortality in patients with heart failure?
Repeat heart failure hospitalizations are strongly associated with progressively decreased survival time, highlighting the prognostic importance of preventing readmissions.
Lin et al. (2017) studied this question.
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