Understanding changing patterns of survival and hospitalization for heart failure over two decades in New Zealand: utilityn of ‘days alive and out of hospital’ from epidemiological data

摘要

Aims To describe changes in heart failure (HF) epidemiology in New Zealand between 1988 and 2008 using the number of days alive and out of hospital after a first hospitalization for HF, and to use these data to evaluate the overall impact of changing patterns of hospitalization and survival.