Five-year trends in cause-specific readmissions and cost burden of mitral transcatheter edge-to-edge repair.
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv
; 99(4): 1251-1256, 2022 03.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
The study aimed to evaluate cost trends associated with mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER).BACKGROUND:
TEER is a treatment option for patients at prohibitive surgical risk with moderate to severe mitral valve regurgitation and NYHA class III or IV symptoms. The 30-day costs and causes of readmission following TEER have not been well studied.METHODS:
Patients undergoing mitral TEER in the United States from 2014 to 2018 were identified in the Nationwide Readmission Database. Patient characteristics, cause-specific readmission, and costs of the index hospitalization and readmissions were analyzed. Costs were trended over years using general linear regression.RESULTS:
A total of 10,196 patients underwent mitral TEER during the study period. Thirty-day readmissions were stable over time at around 16%. The mean length of stay following TEER decreased from 7 days in 2014 to 5 days in 2018. There was a significant decline in the cost of the index hospitalization of $1311 per year, and a significant decline in the total 30-day cost of $1588 per year (p < 0.001). This was strictly due to a reduction in the cost of the index hospitalization without a change in readmission costs over time (p = 0.23). Infectious causes of readmissions significantly decreased while total cardiovascular readmissions, including heart failure, remained constant.CONCLUSION:
The decreasing 30-day cost burden of TEER is primarily driven by the shorter index length of stay, as experience in TEER has grown and, length of stay has declined. However, cardiovascular readmissions, and consequently readmission costs, have remained steady.Palabras clave
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Implantación de Prótesis de Válvulas Cardíacas
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Insuficiencia de la Válvula Mitral
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Health_economic_evaluation
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Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Humans
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv
Asunto de la revista:
CARDIOLOGIA
Año:
2022
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos