Table 2.

Five‐year survival estimates with 95% confidence intervals in patients with heart failure recorded in primary care, hospital admissions, or both compared with the age‐ and sex‐matched general population

	Age‐ and sex‐matched general population	Source of HF record (HF population)
		CPRD	CPRD and HES	HES
		Primary care record of HF but never hospitalized for HF	Primary care record of HF and hospitalized at least once for HF	Hospitalized for HF without primary care record of HF
No. of patients	77 857	23 547	23 681	30 629
Age < 55 years	99.7% (99.5–99.8%)	81.7% (79.1–84.3%)	69.7% (65.8–73.9%)	56.9% (53.7–60.3%)
Age 55–75 years	96.5% (96.3–96.7%)	62.1% (60.9–63.4%)	56.0% (54.7–57.3%)	40.0% (38.6–41.3%)
Age > 75 years	75.4% (74.9–75.8%)	32.7% (31.8–33.6%)	32.4% (31.6–33.2%)	13.2% (12.7–13.8%)
Men	88.7% (88.4–89.0%)	44.2% (43.2–45.3%)	41.3% (40.3–42.3%)	24.5% (23.6–25.4%)
Women	87.5% (87.2–87.8%)	43.6% (42.6–44.6%)	38.4% (37.4–39.3%)	19.2% (18.5–20.0%)
Total	88.1% (87.9–88.3%)	43.9% (43.2–44.6%)	39.8% (39.2–40.5%)	21.7% (21.1–22.2%)

CPRD, Clinical Practice Research Datalink; HES, Hospital Episodes Statistics; HF, heart failure.