Relationship of hospital-associated bleeding with length of stay and total hospitalization costs in patients hospitalized for atrial fibrillation |
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Authors: | Alpesh N. Amin Scott B. Robinson Bruce D. Bowdy Yonghua Jing Bernadette H. Johnson Daniel P. Wiederkehr |
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Affiliation: | 1. University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USAanamin@uci.edu;3. Premier Research Services, Charlotte, NC, USA;4. Abbvie, Chicago, IL, USA;5. Pfizer, New York, NY, USA |
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Abstract: | Background:While literature has focused on the impact of bleeding beginning outside the hospital setting among patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), there is little information regarding bleeding that first occurs within a hospital setting. This study was performed to determine the association between hospital-associated bleeding in patients admitted for AF on outcomes of length of stay (LOS) and total hospitalization cost.Methods and results:The Premier research database was queried to identify adult inpatients discharged between 2008–2011 having a primary diagnosis code for AF where a bleeding diagnosis code was not present on admission. Regression was used to adjust for baseline differences in patients to estimate outcomes comparing patients with and without a hospital-associated bleed. There were 143,287 patients that met the study criteria. There were 2991 (2.1%) patients identified with a hospital associated bleed. After adjustment for covariates, the mean estimated LOS was significantly greater in the bleed group, at 6.0 days (95% CI?=?5.8–6.1) vs the no bleed group at 3.3 days (95% CI?=?3.3–3.3) (p?0.0001). Similarly, the adjusted mean estimated total hospitalization cost was also significantly greater in the bleed group, $12,069 (95% CI?=?$11,779–$12,366) vs $6561 (95% CI?=?$6538–$6583) in the no bleed group (p?0.0001).Conclusions:After adjustments for baseline differences the data show that the 2.1% (n?=?2991) of patients with hospital associated bleeding accounted for an estimated additional 8106 hospitalization days and $16.4 million dollars in cost over the study period compared to non-bleeders. |
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Keywords: | Non-valvular atrial fibrillation Hospital associated bleed Length of stay Total hospitalization cost |
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