PMID: 11926018Apr 3, 2002Paper

A population-based study on overt heart failure in Lombardy (survey of hospitalization in 1996 and 1997)

Italian Heart Journal : Official Journal of the Italian Federation of Cardiology
Edoardo GrondaPietro Barbieri

Abstract

The aim of this study was to get updated information about the incidence and outcome of heart failure hospital admission in the whole population of the largest Italy region. The Lombardy regional database of hospital records (Information System and Quality Control Bureau) provided the requested information: all the heart failure cases admitted to all the institutions of the region were selected by the ICD9 code of congestive heart failure (428-) as the principal or secondary diagnosis. The available data included: diagnosis and surgical procedures (up to four), date of birth, dates of admission and discharge, outcome, DRG code, discharge unit code, gender. The data so obtained concern the hospital discharges in 1996 and 1997. 32,093 cases were selected. The mean ages were 74.1 +/- 11.5 years for males and 80.6 +/- 10.7 for females in 1996, and 71.8 +/- 11.7 for males and 78.3 +/- 10.6 for females in 1997. Most of the cases were classified as appertaining to DRG 127--pure heart failure (56.7%). Heart failure associated with myocardial infarction accounted for 7.3% of cases. The remaining cases (36.0%) were classified as appertaining to heterogeneous medical and surgical DRGs. In 1997, the in-hospital mortality was 14.7% for pati...Continue Reading

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