COMBINING INSTITUTIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE DATA TO ASSESS HOSPITAL COSTS FOR PATIENTS RECEIVING VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICES.
Roslyn A PrichardLouise KershawPatricia M DavidsonPhillip J NewtonStephen GoodallChristopher HaywardPublished in: International journal of technology assessment in health care (2019)
Linked administrative data provides a useful alternative for imputing costs external to the implanting center, and combined with institutional data can illuminate both the pathways to transplant referral and the hospital activity generated by patients experiencing the terminal phases of heart failure in the year before transplant, cf-VAD implant, or death.
Keyphrases
- heart failure
- electronic health record
- big data
- end stage renal disease
- healthcare
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- left ventricular
- newly diagnosed
- primary care
- cystic fibrosis
- adverse drug
- prognostic factors
- acute care
- data analysis
- patient reported outcomes
- atrial fibrillation
- machine learning
- acute heart failure