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背景:识别具有高死亡风险的患者对于适当处置患者和卫生保健资源至关重要。因心力衰竭(HF)反复住院对死亡率的影响尚未在大样本的社区HF人群中进行研究。本研究旨在依据患者因HF住院次数确定其生存特点。方法:通过卫生保健利用数据库,识别2000—2004年英属哥伦比亚所有居民中首次因HF住院的患者队列。
Background. Identifying patients at high risk of death is crucial to the proper disposal of patients and health care resources. The impact of repeated hospitalizations for heart failure (HF) on mortality has not been studied in a large sample of community HF population. The purpose of this study was to determine the survival characteristics of patients based on the number of HF hospitalizations. Methodology: A cohort of patients hospitalized with HF for the first time in all British Columbia from 2000-2004 was identified through the Health Care Use Database.