Epidemiology of Decompensated Heart Failure in a Single Community in the Northeastern United States
June 27th, 2009 Posted by: admin
Publication year: 2009
Source: The American Journal of Cardiology, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 8 June 2009
Robert J., Goldberg , Chad, Darling , Bernard, Joseph , Jane, Saczynski , Marcello, Chinali , …
Limited data are available describing the clinical characteristics, hospital treatment practices, and hospital and long-term death rates of patients hospitalized with decompensated heart failure (HF). To examine the descriptive epidemiology of acute HF in residents of a large New England metropolitan area during the 2 study years of 1995 and 2000, we reviewed the medical records of patients hospitalized with acute HF at 11 medical centers in the Worcester, Massachusetts, metropolitan area during 1995 and 2000 for purposes of collecting information about patients’ sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, hospital management approaches, and hospital and postdischarge mortalities. The mean age of 4,537…
