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Heart failure readmissions: a losing battle or an opportunity for improvement?
Postgraduate Medicine 2019 March 8
Despite great strides in diagnosis and management of heart failure (HF), this chronic illness continues to be a worldwide epidemic with approximately 23 million people afflicted across the globe. In the US, over 6.5 million carry a HF diagnosis with almost 90% of all HF deaths occurring in patients over the age of 70. Since one in five Americans are expected to be older than 65 years by 2050, almost 1,000,000 new HF cases are expected to be diagnosed every year. The staggering nature of these numbers only pales in comparison to current dismal HF survival statistics. The unavoidable natural history of HF continues to be characterized by the occurrence of repetitive hospital admissions. Not only are hospital readmissions demarcated as one of the most important risk factors associated with mortality; but also, a well-recognized trigger for additional hospital readmissions. Even when HF treatment guidelines have been recently updated; the mere fact that four HF societies have issued individual recommendations without reaching a common unifying consensus statement adds to the complexity of HF patient management. The purpose of this Editorial not only to fuel more interest on this topic but also to spark the notion that we have a potential catastrophe in our hands and is the responsibility of all health-care professionals to attend to this vital issue.
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