… In this study, data from the national 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries were used to
identify patients with a HF-related hospitalization. This allowed for an analysis of how costly …

… However, our results indicate that Medicare patients under the age of 65 (11% of the patient
… Medicare patients over age 65. This could be due to sicker patients in the younger Medicare …

… Whether decreases in the length of stay during the past decade for patients with heart failure
(HF) … An observational study of 6 955 461 Medicare fee-for-service hospitalizations for HF …

… Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized with heart failure. This project included the construction
of 2 cross-sectional samples of Medicare … discharge diagnosis of heart failure (International …

… cohort of Medicare patients hospitalized with a diagnosis of HF between 2008 and 2015,
we found that readmissions for both patients with a principal diagnosis of HF and patients with …

… % of Medicare patients in the United States). After linkage to Medicare, our study cohort
included 66,090 patients … After excluding patients who did not remain in fee-for-service Medicare …

… Although patients with … setting than patients enrolled in fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare, it is
unclear whether MA is associated with higher quality in patients hospitalized with heart failure, …

… The Get With The Guidelines–Heart Failure registry was linked to Medicare administrative
data to identify hospitalized patients with HFpEF ≥65 years of age with left ventricular ejection …

… Across a broad population of elderly Medicare patients with HF, we found that heart transplant
centers had lower 30-day mortality rates than non–heart transplant hospitals nationally. …

… Each additional patient per nurse in the average nurse’s workload was associated … for heart
failure [odds ratio (OR)= 1.07; confidence interval CI, 1.05–1.09], 6% for pneumonia patients (…