JACC: Heart Failure
Clinical Research
Patterns of Change in Nesiritide Use in Patients With Heart FailureHow Hospitals React to New Information
Chohreh Partovian, Shu-Xia Li, Xiao Xu, Haiqun Lin, Kelly M. Strait, John Hwa and Harlan M. Krumholz
Table 1
Table 1
Sample Characteristics
| Hospitals | Hospitalizations | |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 403∗ | 813,783 |
| No. of beds | ||
| <200 | 146 (36) | 120,033 (15) |
| 200–400 | 155 (38) | 303,521 (37) |
| >400 | 100 (25) | 390,229 (48) |
| Teaching status | ||
| No | 292 (73) | 491,719 (60) |
| Yes | 109 (27) | 321,500 (40) |
| Region | ||
| Midwest | 88 (22) | 166,989 (21) |
| Northeast | 63 (16) | 169,392 (21) |
| South | 169 (42) | 365,294 (45) |
| West | 81 (20) | 111,544 (14) |
| Population served | ||
| Rural | 86 (21) | 89,642 (11) |
| Urban | 315 (79) | 723,577 (89) |
| Average annual HF volume | ||
| ≤25 | 9 (2) | 336 (0) |
| 26–200 | 128 (32) | 67,638 (8) |
| 201–500 | 152 (38) | 261,071 (32) |
| 501–1,000 | 91 (23) | 330,976 (41) |
| 1,001–1,500 | 23 (6) | 153,762 (19) |
Values are n (%).
HF = heart failure.
↵∗ 2 hospitals were missing general characteristics, including number of beds, teaching status, area served, and geographic location.
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