Association of 30-Day All-Cause Readmission with Long-Term Outcomes in Hospitalized Older Medicare Beneficiaries with Heart Failure Cherinne Arundel, MD, Phillip H. Lam, MD, Rahul Khosla, MD, Marc R. Blackman, MD, Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, Charity Morgan, PhD, Qing Zeng, PhD, Ross D. Fletcher, MD, Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA, Wen-Chih Wu, MD, Prakash Deedwania, MD, Thomas E. Love, PhD, Michel White, MD, Wilbert S. Aronow, MD, Stefan D. Anker, MD, PhD, Richard M. Allman, MD, Ali Ahmed, MD, MPH The American Journal of Medicine Volume 129, Issue 11, Pages 1178-1184 (November 2016) DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.06.018 Copyright © 2016 Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Love plot displaying absolute standardized differences comparing 34 baseline characteristics between heart failure patients with and without 30-day all-cause readmission, before and after propensity score matching. ACE = angiotensin-converting enzyme; ARB = angiotensin receptor blocker. The American Journal of Medicine 2016 129, 1178-1184DOI: (10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.06.018) Copyright © 2016 Terms and Conditions
Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier plot for all-cause mortality in a propensity-matched cohort of older heart failure patients with and without a 30-day all-cause readmission. CI = confidence interval; HR = hazard ratio. The American Journal of Medicine 2016 129, 1178-1184DOI: (10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.06.018) Copyright © 2016 Terms and Conditions