The Current Status of Cardiovascular Medicine in Japan - Analysis of a Large Number of Health Records From a Nationwide Claim-Based Database, JROAD-DPC

Autor: Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Toshiaki Shishido, Yoshihiko Saito, Issei Komuro, Yoko Sumita, Hiroshi Ito, Satoshi Yasuda, Hisao Ogawa, Yoshihiro Miyamoto, Kazuhiro Nakao, Kunihiro Nishimura, Toshihisa Anzai
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Circulation journal : official journal of the Japanese Circulation Society. 80(11)
ISSN: 1347-4820
Popis: BACKGROUND Since cardiovascular disease accounts for one-quarter of deaths in the Japanese population, we developed a nationwide database using the administrative case-mix Diagnostic Procedure Combination (DPC) system (ie, theJapaneseRegistryOfAll cardiac and vascularDiseases (JROAD)-DPC) to reveal the current status of cardiovascular medicine in Japan.Methods and Results:The JROAD-DPC database included 704,593 health records' data of 2012 from 610 certificated hospitals of the Japanese Circulation Society. The 35,824 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and 108,665 patients with heart failure (HF) were admitted to hospitals. Increased hospital case volume was associated with reduced in-hospital mortality rates for both AMI and HF (P for trend
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