Table 1. Baseline characteristics of the index admission and readmission in acute heart failure in breast cancer patients.
| Categories | Variables | Index admission, (%) 8332 |
30-day Readmission n (%)1699 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years) (95% CI) | - | 74.4 (74, 74.7) | 72.9 (72.2, 73.7) |
| Insurance | Medicare | 80.8 | 79.9 |
| Medicaid | 6.2 | 7.1 | |
| Private | 11.1 | 10.9 | |
| Self-paying | 0.7 | 0.5 | |
| Setting/location | Rural | 18.4 | 19.7 |
| Urban non-teaching | 73.2 | 72.7 | |
| Urban teaching | 8.4 | 7.6 | |
| Bed size | Small | 21.0 | 21.6 |
| Medium | 28.2 | 28.3 | |
| Large | 50.8 | 50.1 | |
| Charlson comorbidity index | 1 | 0.1 | 4.5 |
| 2 | 0.1 | 5.1 | |
| 3 or higher | 99.8 | 89.9 | |
| Annual income (US $ per year) | 1–45,999 | 28 | 29.1 |
| 46K–58,999 | 26.3 | 27.3 | |
| 59K-78,999 | 24.9 | 22.4 | |
| 79K or more | 20.9 | 21.3 | |
| Major bleed | - | 1.7 | 3.3 |
| Comorbidities | Obesity | 22 | 22.6 |
| Hypertension | 45.6 | 61.9 | |
| Tobacco Smoker | 24.7 | 24.6 | |
| Anemia | 42.5 | 45.1 | |
| Valvular heart disease | 15.8 | 13.5 | |
| Acute kidney injury | 32.2 | 34.7 | |
| COPD | 26.9 | 29.4 | |
| Diabetes mellitus | 43.3 | 47.1 |
SD: Standard Deviation LL: Lower Limit UL: Upper Limit CI: Confidence Interval
COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease