The study, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, analyzed 177,450 heart transplant-related emergency department visits between 2009 and 2018.
Here are six findings:
- The common primary diagnoses at ED visits was infection (24%) and cardiac primary diagnoses (10%).
- Overall mortality rate was low, at 1.6,% and the mortality rate for emergency department visits was 0.44%.
- The average length of stay was 3.1 days.
- Comorbidities were high, with 42% of patients having hypertension, 38% having diabetes and 31% having more than two comorbidities.
- Renal primary diagnosis had the highest risk of admission, and cardiac primary diagnosis had the highest odds of death.
- The median charge per ED visit or hospitalization was $13,304.
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