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Dual Healthcare System Use During Episodes of Acute Care Heart Failure Associated With Higher Healthcare Utilization and Mortality Risk

BACKGROUND: Individuals receiving cross‐system care (dual users) have higher rates of healthcare utilization and worse outcomes for heart failure (HF) and other conditions. Individuals can be dual users or single‐system users at different times, though, and little is known about utilization and mort...

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Autores principales: Axon, R. Neal, Gebregziabher, Mulugeta, Everett, Charles J., Heidenreich, Paul, Hunt, Kelly J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6201461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30371248
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.118.009054
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author Axon, R. Neal
Gebregziabher, Mulugeta
Everett, Charles J.
Heidenreich, Paul
Hunt, Kelly J.
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description BACKGROUND: Individuals receiving cross‐system care (dual users) have higher rates of healthcare utilization and worse outcomes for heart failure (HF) and other conditions. Individuals can be dual users or single‐system users at different times, though, and little is known about utilization and mortality within discrete episodes of care. METHODS AND RESULTS: A retrospective cohort of 3439 patients with 5231 discrete episodes of HF exacerbation were identified between 2007 and 2011. Episodes encompassed the period from 2 weeks before an initial HF emergency department (ED) visit or hospitalization, included any acute care visits within 30 days after initial visit, and ended 30 days after the last acute care visit in the episode chain. All‐cause and HF‐specific ED visits and hospitalization within 30 days of index visit were analyzed using generalized estimating equations with robust variance. Hazard for death within episodes of acute illness was analyzed using Cox proportional hazards models. In adjusted analyses, dual use acute HF episodes were associated with higher odds of all‐cause ED visits (odds ratio 1.61, 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.33, 1.95), HF‐specific ED visits, (odds ratio 1.54, 95% CI, 1.12, 2.13), all‐cause hospitalization (odds ratio 1.89, 95% CI, 1.50, 2.38), and HF‐specific hospitalization (odds ratio 1.62, 95% CI, 1.15–2.30) as compared with Veterans Health Administration–only episodes of acute HF care. Dual use episodes of care were associated with higher hazard for mortality (hazard ratio=1.52, 95% CI 1.07, 2.16) as compared with all–Veterans Health Administration episodes of care. CONCLUSIONS: Episodes of acute HF care spanning across healthcare systems appear to be associated with higher risk of subsequent ED visits, hospitalization, and mortality.
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spelling pubmed-62014612018-10-31 Dual Healthcare System Use During Episodes of Acute Care Heart Failure Associated With Higher Healthcare Utilization and Mortality Risk Axon, R. Neal Gebregziabher, Mulugeta Everett, Charles J. Heidenreich, Paul Hunt, Kelly J. J Am Heart Assoc Original Research BACKGROUND: Individuals receiving cross‐system care (dual users) have higher rates of healthcare utilization and worse outcomes for heart failure (HF) and other conditions. Individuals can be dual users or single‐system users at different times, though, and little is known about utilization and mortality within discrete episodes of care. METHODS AND RESULTS: A retrospective cohort of 3439 patients with 5231 discrete episodes of HF exacerbation were identified between 2007 and 2011. Episodes encompassed the period from 2 weeks before an initial HF emergency department (ED) visit or hospitalization, included any acute care visits within 30 days after initial visit, and ended 30 days after the last acute care visit in the episode chain. All‐cause and HF‐specific ED visits and hospitalization within 30 days of index visit were analyzed using generalized estimating equations with robust variance. Hazard for death within episodes of acute illness was analyzed using Cox proportional hazards models. In adjusted analyses, dual use acute HF episodes were associated with higher odds of all‐cause ED visits (odds ratio 1.61, 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.33, 1.95), HF‐specific ED visits, (odds ratio 1.54, 95% CI, 1.12, 2.13), all‐cause hospitalization (odds ratio 1.89, 95% CI, 1.50, 2.38), and HF‐specific hospitalization (odds ratio 1.62, 95% CI, 1.15–2.30) as compared with Veterans Health Administration–only episodes of acute HF care. Dual use episodes of care were associated with higher hazard for mortality (hazard ratio=1.52, 95% CI 1.07, 2.16) as compared with all–Veterans Health Administration episodes of care. CONCLUSIONS: Episodes of acute HF care spanning across healthcare systems appear to be associated with higher risk of subsequent ED visits, hospitalization, and mortality. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6201461/ /pubmed/30371248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.118.009054 Text en © 2018 The Authors. Published on behalf of the American Heart Association, Inc., by Wiley. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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Everett, Charles J.
Heidenreich, Paul
Hunt, Kelly J.
Dual Healthcare System Use During Episodes of Acute Care Heart Failure Associated With Higher Healthcare Utilization and Mortality Risk
title Dual Healthcare System Use During Episodes of Acute Care Heart Failure Associated With Higher Healthcare Utilization and Mortality Risk
title_full Dual Healthcare System Use During Episodes of Acute Care Heart Failure Associated With Higher Healthcare Utilization and Mortality Risk
title_fullStr Dual Healthcare System Use During Episodes of Acute Care Heart Failure Associated With Higher Healthcare Utilization and Mortality Risk
title_full_unstemmed Dual Healthcare System Use During Episodes of Acute Care Heart Failure Associated With Higher Healthcare Utilization and Mortality Risk
title_short Dual Healthcare System Use During Episodes of Acute Care Heart Failure Associated With Higher Healthcare Utilization and Mortality Risk
title_sort dual healthcare system use during episodes of acute care heart failure associated with higher healthcare utilization and mortality risk
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6201461/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30371248
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.118.009054
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