1. Frequency, profile, and outcomes of patients with acute heart failure transferred directly to home hospitalization from emergency departments
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Òscar Miró, M.L. López Grima, M. Mir, Héctor Alonso, Javier Jacob, Pablo Herrero-Puente, Víctor Gil, Pere Llorens, M.P. López Díez, and Francisco Javier Martín-Sánchez
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Frequency profile ,Home Care Services, Hospital-Based ,Direct transfer ,Patient Readmission ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Clinical Observation Units ,Cause of Death ,Epidemiology ,Internal Medicine ,Humans ,Medicine ,Registries ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Adverse effect ,Aged ,Proportional Hazards Models ,Aged, 80 and over ,Heart Failure ,Home hospitalization ,business.industry ,Mortality rate ,General Medicine ,Emergency department ,Length of Stay ,medicine.disease ,Hospitalization ,Spain ,Heart failure ,Acute Disease ,Emergency medicine ,Female ,Emergency Service, Hospital ,business - Abstract
OBJECTIVE To describe the frequency, clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with acute heart failure (AHF) transferred directly from emergency departments to home hospitalisation (HH) and to compare them with those hospitalised in internal medicine (IM) or short-stay units (SSU). METHOD We included patients with AHF transferred to HH by hospitals that considered this option during the Epidemiology of Acute Heart Failure in Spanish Emergency Departments (EAHFE) 4-5-6 Registries and compared them with patients admitted to IM or SSU in these centres. We compared the adjusted all-cause mortality at 1 year and adverse events 30 days after discharge. RESULTS The study included 1473 patients (HH/IM/SSU: 68/979/384). The HH rate was 4.7% (95% CI, 3.8-6.0%). The patients in HH had few differences compared with those hospitalised in IM and SSUs. The HH mortality was 1.5%, and the HH median stay was 7.5 days (IQR, 4.5-12), similar to that of IM (median stay, 8 days; IQR, 5-13; p=.106) and longer than that of SSU (median stay, 4 days; IQR, 3-7; p
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- 2021
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