Receiving care according to national heart failure guidelines is associated with lower total costs: an observational study in Region Halland, Sweden.
Zayed M YasinPhilip D AndersonMarkus LingmanJapneet KwatraAwais AshfaqJonathan E SlutzmanBjörn AgvallPublished in: European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes (2021)
Heart failure patients are heavy users of health care, particularly IPC. Receiving AP is associated with lower costs even adjusting for comorbidities, although causality cannot be proven from an observational study. There may be an opportunity to decrease overall costs and improve outcomes by improving prescribing patterns and associated high-quality care.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- quality improvement
- heart failure
- palliative care
- affordable care act
- primary care
- transcription factor
- adverse drug
- pain management
- left ventricular
- emergency department
- atrial fibrillation
- clinical practice
- type diabetes
- adipose tissue
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- ejection fraction
- skeletal muscle
- acute heart failure
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