Costs of heart failure-related hospitalizations in patients aged 18 to 64 years

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 769-776

  Wang, Guijing ^a   Zhang, Zefeng ^a   Ayala, Carma ^a   Wall, Hilary K ^a   Fang, Jing ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLICY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649461651     PISSN: 10880224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Fang J, Mensah GA, Croft J, Keenan NL. Heart failure-related hospitalization in the U.S., 1979 to 2004. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008;52(6):428-434.
2. McCullough PA, Philbin EF, Spertus JA, Kaatz S, Sandberg KR, Weaver WD; Resource Utilization Among Congestive Heart Failure (REACH) Study. Confirmation of a heart failure epidemic: finding from the Resource Utilization Among Congestive Heart Failure (REACH) study. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2002;39(1):60-69.
3. Brown DW, Haldeman GA, Croft JB, Giles WH, Mensah GA. Racial or ethnic differences in hospitalization for heart failure among elderly adults: Medicare, 1990-2000. Am Heart J. 2005;150(3):448-454.
4. Liao L, Allen LA, Whellan DJ. Economic burden of heart failure in the elderly. Pharmacoeconomics. 2008;26(6):447-662. (Pubitemid 351704856)
5. Lloyd-Jones D, Adams R, Carnethon M, et al; American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Chapter 20. Economic cost of cardiovascular disease. In: Heart disease and stroke statistics. 2009 update: A report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Circulation. 2009;119(3):e172-e173.
6. Titler MG, Jensen GA, Dochterman JM, et al. Cost of hospital care for older adults with heart failure: medical, pharmaceutical, and nursing costs. Health Serv Res. 2008;43(2):635-655.
7. Weintraub WS, Kawabata H, Tran M, L'ltalien GJ, Chen RS. Influence of co-morbidity on cost of care for heart failure. Am J Cardiol. 2003;91(8):1011-1015.
8. Duong PT, Russo P, Fu Q, et al. Economic burden of congestive heart failure in managed care. In: Abstract Book of Association of Health Services Research Meeting. 1997;14:156-157.
9. Ryden-Bergsten T, Andersson F. The health care costs of heart failure in Sweden. J Intern Med. 1999;246(3):275-284. (Pubitemid 29426446)
10. Bundkirchen A, Schwinger RHG. Epidemiology and economic burden of chronic heart failure. Eur Heart J. 2004;6(suppl D):D57-D60. (Pubitemid 38993433)
11. Dumitru I, Baker M. Heart failure: eMedicine Cardiology. November 2009. Updated July 30, 2010. http://www.emedicine.medscape.com/article/163062- overview. Accessed August 4, 2010.
12. Liao L, Anstrom KJ, Gottdiener JS, et al. Long-term costs and resource use in elderly participants with congestive heart failure in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Am Heart J. 2007;153(2):245-252.
13. Liao L, Jollis JG, Anstrom KJ, et al. Costs for heart failure with normal vs reduced ejection fraction. Arch Intern Med. 2006;166(1):112-118.
14. Heywood JT, Saltzberg MT. Strategies to reduce length of stay and costs associated with decompensated heart failure. Curr Heart Fail Rep. 2005;2(3):140-147.
15. Stroupe KT, Teal EY, Weiner M, Gradus-Pizlo I, Brater DC, Murray MD. Healthcare and medication costs and use among older adults with heart failure. Am J Med. 2004;116(7):443-450.
16. Zhang JX, Rathouz PJ, Chin MH. Comorbidity and the concentration of healthcare expenditures in older patients with heart failure. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2003;51(4):476-482.
17. Wexler DJ, Chen J, Smith GL, et al. Predictors of costs of caring for elderly patients discharged with heart failure. Am Heart J. 2001;142(2):350-357.
18. Mackowiak J. Cost of heart failure to the healthcare system. Am J Manag Care. 1998;4(6 suppl):S338-S342.
19. O'Connell JB, Bristow MR. Economic impact of heart failure in the United States: time for a different approach. J Heart Lung Transplant. 1994;13(4):S107-S112.
20. Adamson DM, Chang S, Hansen LG. Health Research Data From the Real World: The MarketScan Databases (The MarketScan white paper). 2008. http://thomsonreuters.com/products-services/healthcare/healthcare-products/ Pharmaceuticals/White-Papers. Accessed September 13, 2010.
21. Beinart SC, Kolm P, Veledar E, et al. Long-term cost effectiveness of early and sustained dual oral antiplatelet therapy with clopidogrel given for up to one year after percutaneous coronary intervention: results from the Clopidogrel for the Reduction of Events During Observation (CREDO) trial. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2005;46(5):761-769.
22. Kahende JW, Woollery TA, Lee CW. Assessing medical expenditures on 4 smoking-related diseases, 1996-2001. Am J Health Behav. 2007;31(6):602-611.
23. Wang G, Zhang Z, Ayala C. Hospitalization costs associated with hypertension as a secondary diagnosis among insured patients aged 18-64 years. Am J Hypertens. 2010;23(3):275-281.
24. Ye X, Gross CR, Schommer J, Cline R, Xuan J, St Peter WL. Initiation of statin after hospitalization for coronary heart disease. J Manag Care Pharm. 2007;13(5):385-396. (Pubitemid 47162413)
25. O'Connell JB. The economic burden of heart failure. Clin Cardiol. 2000;23(3 suppl):III6-III10.
26. Lee WC, Chavez YE, Baker T, Luce BR. Economic burden of heart failure: a summary of recent literature. Heart Lung. 2004;33(6):362-371. (Pubitemid 39592989)
27. Charlson ME, Pompei P, Ales KL, MacKenzie CR. A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: development and validation. J Chronic Dis. 1987;40(5):373-383. (Pubitemid 17055592)
28. Nichols GA, Bell TJ, Pedula KL, O'Keeffe-Rosetti M. Medical care costs among patients with established cardiovascular disease. Am J Manag Care. 2010;16(3):e86-e93.
29. Guevara JP, Mandell DS, Rostain AL, Zhao H, Hadley TR. National estimates of health services expenditures for children with behavioral disorders: an analysis of the medical expenditure panel survey. Pediatrics. 2003;112(6 pt 1):e440-e446.
30. Mandell DS, Guevara JP, Rostain AL, Hadley TR. Economic grand rounds: medical expenditures among children with psychiatric disorders in a Medicaid population. Psychiatr Serv. 2003;54(4):465-467.
31. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Appendix B. Ambulatory care sensitive conditions. http://www.ahrq.gov/data/safetynet/billappb.htm. Accessed December 15, 2009.
32. Spencer FA, Meyer TE, Goldberg RJ, et al. Twenty year trends (1975-1995) in the incidence, in-hospital and long-term death rates associated with heart failure complicating acute myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1999;34(5):1378-1387.
33. American Heart Association. Heart disease and stroke statistics - 2010 update. http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1200026. Accessed September 13, 2010.
34. Bueno H, Ross JS, Wang Y, et al. Trends in length of stay and short-term outcomes among Medicare patients hospitalized for heart failure, 1993-2006. JAMA. 2010;303(21):2141-2147.
35. Pusca SV, Puskas JD. Revascularization in heart failure: coronary bypass or percutaneous coronary intervention? Heart Fail Clin. 2007;3(2):211-228. (Pubitemid 47071970)
36. Gheorghiade M, Khan S, Blair JE, et al; Eplerenone Post-Acute Myocardial Infarction Heart Failure Efficacy and Survival (EPHESUS) Investigators. The effects of eplerenone on length of stay and total days of heart failure hospitalization after myocardial infarction in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. Am Heart J. 2009;158(3):437-443.
37. 70% rise in hospital room costs since 1980. The New York Times. November 5, 1986. http://www.nytimes.com/1986/11/05/us/70-rise-in-hospital-room-costs- since-1980.html?sec=health. Accessed July 22, 2010.
38. Psaty BM, Boineau R, Kuller LH, Luepker RV. The potential costs of upcoding for heart failure in the United States. Am J Cardiol. 1999;83(1):108-109. (Pubitemid 29307654)
39. Rich MW. Heart failure. Cardiol Clin. 1999;17(1):123-135.