title: [Cost of acute heart failure related readmissions].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess direct in-patient cost and length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) and the standard cardiology unit in acute heart failure (AHF) readmissions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Out of 1 759 patients hospitalized with acute heart failure, 223 patients were readmitted to Faculty Hospital Brno-Bohunice (Czech Republic) during study period (61.4% male; mean age 71.2 years) with mean total cost CZK 85 120 (Euro 3 095) per length of stay 9.2 days and interventions. Comparing to the first hospitalization of study cohort (223 pts.) the decrease was recorded in mean room rate, length of stay and need of ICU stay (from 48% to 42% pts.), nevertheless ICU stay increased (from 3.7 days to 4.1 days). The growth of mean cost was recorded in both procedures in angiology (the decrease in number of coronary angiography which is cheaper was more remarkable than PCI decrease in readmitted patients) and arrhythmology (including device: pacemaker, ICD, CRT) which made 57.5% of total readmission costs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The difference in mean in-patient cost between the first and second hospitalization was 18%. The antiarrhytmic procedures had the most significant impact on total readmission cost and its variability, butwe assume that these procedures will reduce within next readmissions and their impact will weaken as in angiology procedures.
authors.affiliation: Farmakologický ustav Lékarské fakulty MU Brno. brihova@med.muni.cz
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ríhová
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Parenica
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Miklík
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Felsöci
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Horáková
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sulcová
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jarkovsý
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Spinar
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D018153:Czech Republic; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000191:economics; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000191:economics; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010359:Patient Readmission / Q000191:economics*