Impact of home- and community-based services in the long-term care insurance system on outcomes of patients with acute heart failure: Insights from the Kitakawachi Clinical Background and Outcome of Heart Failure Registry

Autor: Ryuji Nohara, Yuko Morikami, Yuka Terasaki, Ryoko Fujita, Miyuki Okuda, Tsutomu Ikeda, Kotaro Iwatsu, Kensuke Takabayashi, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Tahei Ichinohe, Shouji Kitaguchi, Hitoshi Koito, Takashi Yamamoto, Kotoe Takenaka, Osamu Nakajima
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Geriatricsgerontology internationalReferences. 20(10)
ISSN: 1447-0594
Popis: AIM In Japan, the long-term care insurance (LTCI) system is important for elderly people living at home; however, no clinical studies have revealed a relationship between home- or community-based services and outcomes in patients with acute heart failure (AHF). METHODS This was a prospective multicenter cohort study of patients with AHF enrolled between April 2015 and August 2017. Patients aged ≥65 years with LTCI were divided into those receiving home- and community-based services (service users) and without home and community-based services (service non-users). The endpoint was defined as a composite endpoint, which included all-cause mortality and hospitalization for heart failure after discharge. Subgroup analyses were performed for elderly patients (
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