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Health Care Utilization And Mortality Associated With Heart Failure-Related Admissions Among Cancer Patients, Avirup Guha, Amit Kumar Dey, Merna Armanious, Katherine Dodd, Janice Bonsu, Hani Jneid, William Abraham, Michael G. Fradley, Daniel Addison
Health Care Utilization And Mortality Associated With Heart Failure-Related Admissions Among Cancer Patients, Avirup Guha, Amit Kumar Dey, Merna Armanious, Katherine Dodd, Janice Bonsu, Hani Jneid, William Abraham, Michael G. Fradley, Daniel Addison
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Aims: Heart failure (HF) outcomes continue to improve with widespread use of new therapies. Concurrently, cancer survival has dramatically improved. Yet whether cancer patients share similar strategies and outcomes of inpatient HF treatment to those without HF is unknown. We sought to assess the contemporary impacts of cancer on inpatient HF outcomes over time.
Methods and results: The retrospective National Inpatient Sample (2003–15) and National Readmissions Database (2013–14) registries were queried for adults admitted for HF and stratified for cancer status, excluding cases of metastatic disease. Temporal trends in HF admissions, hospital charge rates, length of hospitalization, HF-related procedure utilization, …