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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2022 Jul 12;80(2):111–122. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2022.04.045

FIGURE 2. Health Care Utilization and Death Occurring Within 30 Days.

FIGURE 2

The rate (%) of all-cause and heart failure-specific emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations and death from any cause occurring within 30 days was determined. In general, all-cause and heart failure-related health care utilization and death were highest following an initial hospitalization for worsening heart failure (WHF) and lowest following an outpatient encounter for WHF. However, there was a relatively narrow range of rates for subsequent hospitalizations for WHF following an index WHF episode, suggesting that any clinical encounter type represents a sentinel event in the natural history of the disorder.