Emergency Department Use and Hospital Mortality Among Heart Transplant Recipients

Abstract

HT-related ED visits increased from 2009 to 2018 with high admission rates but low in-hospital mortality, suggesting an opportunity to improve prehospital care. Older patients and those with cardiac primary diagnoses had the highest risk of death. The observed contrast between predictors of admission and mortality signals a need for further study to improve risk stratification and outpatient care strategies.

Holzhauser L, Reza N, Edwards JJ, Birati EY, Owens AT, McLean R, Maeda K, O’Connor MJ, Rossano JW, Mondal A, Katcoff H, Edelson JB. Emergency Department Use and Hospital Mortality Among Heart Transplant Recipients in the United States. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024 Mar 5;13(5):e032676.