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Noncardiac comorbidity increases preventable hospitalizations and mortality among medicare beneficiaries with chronic heart failure

Joel B. Braunstein, MD^*,*, Gerard F. Anderson, PhD^*, Gary Gerstenblith, MD, Wendy Weller, PhD, Marlene Niefeld, MPP, Robert Herbert and Albert W. Wu, MD, MPH^*

^* Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

View larger version (55K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Impact of noncardiac comorbidity burden on the annual probability of a Medicare beneficiary with chronic heart failure (n = 122,630) experiencing a hospitalization due to any cause, a preventable hospitalization or a preventable hospitalization due to chronic heart failure (CHF). Data are represented as mean probabilities. p < 0.0001 for linear trend for all outcomes. ACSC = ambulatory care sensitive conditions.