Pulmonary Embolism Hospitalization, Readmission, and Mortality Rates in US Older Adults, 1999-2015

Behnood Bikdeli; Yun Wang; David Jimenez; Sahil A Parikh; Manuel Monreal; Samuel Z Goldhaber; Harlan M Krumholz

doi:10.1001/jama.2019.8594

Pulmonary Embolism Hospitalization, Readmission, and Mortality Rates in US Older Adults, 1999-2015

JAMA. 2019 Aug 13;322(6):574-576. doi: 10.1001/jama.2019.8594.

Authors

Behnood Bikdeli¹, Yun Wang², David Jimenez³, Sahil A Parikh¹, Manuel Monreal⁴, Samuel Z Goldhaber⁵, Harlan M Krumholz²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
² Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Respiratory Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain.
⁵ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This study uses Medicare billing codes to characterize trends in readmission and mortality rates for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries with pulmonary embolism (PE) between 1999 and 2015 to assess changes accompanying recent diagnostic and therapeutic changes in management of the disease.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Aged
Female
Hospitalization / trends*
Humans
Length of Stay / trends
Male
Models, Statistical
Patient Readmission / trends
Pulmonary Embolism / epidemiology*
Pulmonary Embolism / mortality
United States / epidemiology

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

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