1. Heart failure accounts for 1–3% of all hospital admissions in Europe and the USA
Norway (2008)
1.1%
Sweden (2011)
2.2%
Netherlands (2010)
1.5%
USA (2007)
2.9%
Poland (2010)
Lower Silesia region
1.5%
England (2011–12)
0.4–2.5%
Germany (2007)
2.0%
Notes
This map of Europe and North America gives hospitalizations for heart failure as a proportion of total hospitalizations. There is a consistent pattern, with 1 and 2% of all hospitalizations being related to heart failure, so this is a very important problem for health services.
Data shown are for heart failure as a primary diagnosis and are probably an underestimate. Data for England is the range from primary diagnosis and any diagnosis of heart failure.
References
USA
Hall MJ, DeFrances CJ, Williams SN, Golosinskiy A, Schwartzman A. National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2007 summary. Natl Health Stat Report 2010;29:1–24.
Chen J, Dharmarajan K, Wang Y, Krumholz HM. National trends in heart failure hospital stay rates, 2001 to J Am Coll Cardiol 2013;61:1078–88.
Norway
Statistics Norway. StatBank database. 2013: Data available from: &nvl=&PLanguage=1&nyTmpVar=true&CMSSub
Sweden
Socialstyrelsen. Statistikdatabas för diagnoser i sluten vård 1998– : Data available from: (Accessed 21 October 2013).
Netherlands
Statistics Netherlands. StatLine database. 2012: =SLEN&PA=37852ENG&D1=38,58&D2= &LA=EN&VW=T (Accessed 21 November 2013).
Poland
Data supplied by regional health system representatives in Poland.
Germany
Neumann T, Biermann J, Erbel R et al. Heart failure: the commonest reason for hospital admission in Germany: medical and economic perspectives. Dtsch Arztebl Int 2009;106:269–75.
Austria
Statistik Austria. Jahrbuch der Gesundheitsstatistik Wien, 2012: 49 FILE&dID=131915&dDocName= (Accessed 21 October 2013).
Switzerland
Office fédéral de la statistique. Statistique médicale des hôpitaux : Available from: (Accessed 21 October 2013).
Spain
Sistema Nacional de Salud. National Minimum Database at Hospital Discharge [NMDHD]. 2013: Data available from: (Accessed 21 October 2013).
England
Health and Social Care Information Centre. Hospital Episode Statistics: Admitted Patient Care 2011–12. Data available from: hscic.gov.uk/searchcatalogue (Accessed 21 October 2013).
Switzerland (2011)
1.1%
Spain (2011)
1.8%
Austria (2010)
2.0%