Why the study?
Reducing hospital length of stay is important for minimizing heart failure burden, but the impact of social and structural determinants of health on length of stay has received little attention.
Does race/ethnicity impact hospital length of stay in patients hospitalized for heart failure?
Population
Three thousand three seven hundred thirty patients hospitalized for heart failure
Comparison
Disparities across race/ethnicity
Design
Registry-based observational study
Key result
Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous American/Pacific Islander patients hospitalized for heart failure had significantly longer adjusted lengths of stay compared with non-Hispanic White patients.
Authors
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Hospital factors may drive racial/ethnic HF LOS disparities; hypothesis-generating for system-level interventions.
Observational (n=303,730)
Yes
Does race/ethnicity impact hospital length of stay in patients hospitalized for heart failure?
Absolute Event Rate: 5.72% vs 5.32%
Racial and ethnic disparities in hospital length of stay for heart failure are primarily driven by hospital-level differences rather than individual patient factors.
Zheng et al. (2022) conducted an observational in Heart failure (n=303,730). Minority race/ethnicity (Black, Hispanic, Indigenous American/Pacific Islander) vs. Non-Hispanic White race/ethnicity was evaluated on Adjusted hospital length of stay (LOS). Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous American/Pacific Islander patients hospitalized for heart failure had significantly longer adjusted lengths of stay compared with non-Hispanic White patients.
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