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Global perspectives in hospitalized heart failure: regional and ethnic variation in patient characteristics, management, and outcomes.

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Ambrosy, AP; Gheorghiade, M; Chioncel, O; Mentz, RJ; Butler, J
Published in: Curr Heart Fail Rep
December 2014

Heart failure (HF) is a public health problem of global proportions afflicting more than 25 million patients worldwide. Despite stable or declining per capita hospitalization rates in the USA and several European countries, there are over one million hospitalizations for HF annually in the USA, with similar numbers in Europe, accounting for 6.5 million hospital days and the majority of the approximately $40 billion spent each year on HF-related care. Moreover, clinical trial data suggest that post-discharge survival and readmissions have largely remained unchanged. Thus, understanding geographic and ethnic variations in HF is essential to formulating public policy at the local, national, regional, and international levels and setting the agenda for basic, translational, and clinical research endeavors. This paper aims to describe regional and ethnic variations in patient characteristics, management, and outcomes in hospitalized HF.

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Curr Heart Fail Rep

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EISSN

1546-9549

Publication Date

December 2014

Volume

11

Issue

4

Start / End Page

416 / 427

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Risk Factors
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians'
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
  • Humans
  • Hospitalization
  • Heart Failure
  • Global Health
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Comorbidity
 

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Ambrosy, A. P., Gheorghiade, M., Chioncel, O., Mentz, R. J., & Butler, J. (2014). Global perspectives in hospitalized heart failure: regional and ethnic variation in patient characteristics, management, and outcomes. Curr Heart Fail Rep, 11(4), 416–427. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11897-014-0221-9
Ambrosy, Andrew P., Mihai Gheorghiade, Ovidiu Chioncel, Robert J. Mentz, and Javed Butler. “Global perspectives in hospitalized heart failure: regional and ethnic variation in patient characteristics, management, and outcomes.Curr Heart Fail Rep 11, no. 4 (December 2014): 416–27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11897-014-0221-9.
Ambrosy AP, Gheorghiade M, Chioncel O, Mentz RJ, Butler J. Global perspectives in hospitalized heart failure: regional and ethnic variation in patient characteristics, management, and outcomes. Curr Heart Fail Rep. 2014 Dec;11(4):416–27.
Ambrosy, Andrew P., et al. “Global perspectives in hospitalized heart failure: regional and ethnic variation in patient characteristics, management, and outcomes.Curr Heart Fail Rep, vol. 11, no. 4, Dec. 2014, pp. 416–27. Pubmed, doi:10.1007/s11897-014-0221-9.
Ambrosy AP, Gheorghiade M, Chioncel O, Mentz RJ, Butler J. Global perspectives in hospitalized heart failure: regional and ethnic variation in patient characteristics, management, and outcomes. Curr Heart Fail Rep. 2014 Dec;11(4):416–427.
Journal cover image

Published In

Curr Heart Fail Rep

DOI

EISSN

1546-9549

Publication Date

December 2014

Volume

11

Issue

4

Start / End Page

416 / 427

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Risk Factors
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians'
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
  • Humans
  • Hospitalization
  • Heart Failure
  • Global Health
  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Comorbidity