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. 2022 Nov 28;6(2):e39566. doi: 10.2196/39566

Table 2.

Inpatient outcomes.

Variable Value

2019 2020 P value
ICUa admissions, n (%)

Total 80 (11.1) 70 (15.8) .02

Sex .10


Male 44 (11.6) 38 (16.3)


Female 36 (10.6) 32 (15.2)

Race or ethnicity


NHWb 41 (9.6) 30 (9.6) .98


NHBc 26 (13) 15 (17) .33


Hispanic 3 (5) 4 (14) .21


NHAPId 4 (15) 3 (27) .62

Income quartile


IQ1e 16 (11.6) 10 (14) .61


IQ2 7 (13) 5 (25) .21


IQ3 7 (9) 14 (16) .18


IQ4 49 (10.7) 41 (15.8) .05
Mortality, n (%)

Total 20 (2.8) 19 (4.3) .17

Sex


Male 10 (2.8) 10 (4.3) .22


Female 10 (2.8) 9 (4.3) .23

Race or ethnicity


NHW 14 (1.9) 16 (5.1) .20


NHB 3 (1.5) 1 (1) .83


Hispanic 2 (4) 1 (4) .93


NHAPI 0 (0) 1 (11) .08

Income quartile


IQ1 3 (2.2) 2 (3) .79


IQ2 2 (4) 1 (5) .64


IQ3 2 (3) 4 (4) .77


IQ4 12 (2.7) 13 (5.0) .11
GWTG-HFf score

Total 40.86 40.74 .82

Sex


Male 41.67 41.78 .89


Female 39.95 39.68 .72

Race or ethnicity


NHW 42.99 42.24 .22


NHB 35.17 34.59 .60


Hispanic 40.81 36.25 .051


NHAPI 44.50 42.82 .51

Income quartile


IQ1 36.68 38.27 .26


IQ2 40.86 38.15 .33


IQ3 40.51 39.59 .47


IQ4 42.18 42.00 .79
OPTIMIZE-HFg score

Total 34.49 34.05 .39

Sex


Male 35.35 35.05 .68


Female 33.53 33.06 .49

Race or ethnicity


NHW 35.49 35.00 .43


NHB 32.17 31.35 .43


Hispanic 32.71 30.52 .26


NHAPI 37.88 36.63 .20

Income quartile


IQ1 32.69 33.57 .57


IQ2 34.12 33.10 .70


IQ3 34.12 33.26 .49


IQ4 35.08 34.54 .39

aICU: intensive care unit.

bNHW: non-Hispanic White.

cNHB: non-Hispanic Black.

dNHAPI: non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander.

eIQ: income quartile.

fGWTG-HF: Get With the Guidelines—Heart Failure.

gOPTIMIZE-HF: Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure.