Financial barriers and adverse clinical outcomes among patients with cardiovascular-related chronic diseases: a cohort study

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• 作者：David J. T. Campbell ; Braden J. Manns ; Robert G. Weaver…
• 刊名：BMC Medicine
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：15
• 期：1
• 全文大小：549KB
• 刊物主题：Medicine/Public Health, general; Biomedicine, general;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1741-7015
• 卷排序：15

文摘

BackgroundSome patients with cardiovascular-related chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease report financial barriers to achieving optimal health. Previous surveys report that the perception of having a financial barrier is associated with self-reported adverse clinical outcomes. We sought to confirm these findings using linked survey and administrative data to determine, among patients with cardiovascular-related chronic diseases, if there is an association between perceived financial barriers and the outcomes of: (1) disease-related hospitalizations, (2) all-cause mortality and (3) inpatient healthcare costs.