Hospitalization and medical cost of patients with elevated serum N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide levels

Patients with heart failure (HF) are reportedly at high risk for 'all-cause' re-hospitalization. A biomarker for HF, N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), enables to simply detect patients with possible HF (pHF). We examined the hospitalization and medical cost of Japanese...

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Published in:PloS one 2018-01, Vol.13 (1), p.e0190979-e0190979
Main Authors: Kitagawa, Toshiro, Oda, Noboru, Mizukawa, Mariko, Hidaka, Takayuki, Naka, Makiko, Nakayama, Susumu, Kihara, Yasuki
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biology and Life Sciences
Biomarkers
Brain
Brain natriuretic peptide
Cardiology
Congestive heart failure
Development and progression
Health care costs
Health care expenditures
Health sciences
Heart failure
Hospitals
Laboratories
Medical diagnosis
Medicine and Health Sciences
Patients
Payment systems
Peptides
Physiological aspects
Social Sciences
Ultrasonic imaging
University graduates
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Summary:Patients with heart failure (HF) are reportedly at high risk for 'all-cause' re-hospitalization. A biomarker for HF, N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), enables to simply detect patients with possible HF (pHF). We examined the hospitalization and medical cost of Japanese patients detected by an elevated serum NT-proBNP, and also evaluated the effects of institutional team approaches for HF on their all-cause hospitalizations. We retrospectively extracted all adult patients with serum NT-proBNP ≥400 pg/ml measured between January and March 2012 in Hiroshima University Hospital as pHF-positive patients. We studied their all-cause hospitalization records during the past 3-year period. We also extracted all pHF-negative patients with NT-proBNP
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0190979