Healthcare Costs Among Patients with Heart Failure: A Comparison of Costs between Matched Decedent and Survivor Cohorts

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• 作者：Engels N. Obi ; Jason P. Swindle ; Stuart J. Turner ; Patricia A. Russo…
• 关键词：Administrative claims studies ; Cardiology ; Heart failure ; Healthcare costs ; Pharmacotherapy ; Survivor ; decedent analysis
• 刊名：Advances in Therapy
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：34
• 期：1
• 页码：261-276
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• 刊物主题：Internal Medicine; Oncology; Cardiology; Rheumatology; Endocrinology; Pharmacology/Toxicology;
• 出版者：Springer Healthcare
• ISSN：1865-8652
• 卷排序：34

文摘

IntroductionPrior research suggests increased costs during the final months of life, yet little is known about healthcare cost differences between patients with heart failure (HF) who die or survive.