Mortality after discharge from a public tertiary cardiovascular referral hospital

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It is critically important for stakeholders with distinct foci of attention on healthcare to understand patient evolution in the presence of an established diagnosis or with a suspected diagnosis of various diseases, specially considering death as an outcome. To study the long-term mortality of patients at a cardiovascular referral hospital. Deterministic binding (selection of pairs of registers from the hospital electronic health records and the mortality records of São Paulo state) from 2002 to 2017 was performed. Studied variables were: age, sex, hospital treatment unit where the first visit occurred (Emergency Unit, Outpatient Unit, Hospital Admissions, Diagnostics Services), treatment type, elapsed time between the first visit and death, diagnosis at first and last visits and variables related to death. Statistical Methods: descriptive, survival (with Kaplan-Meier method), correspondence and competitive risks analyses; in case of nonoccurrence of death until the end of 2017, the patients were considered alive. Statistical significance was set at values of P

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Lederman, C., Ferreira, J. F. M., Albuquerque, C. P. D., Lima, A. C. P. D., Barroso, L. P., Souza, J. C. M. D., … Mansur, A. J. (2023). Mortality after discharge from a public tertiary cardiovascular referral hospital. Medicine (United States), 102(16), E33627. https://doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000033627

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