Hospital Practice of Direct‐Home Discharge and 30‐Day Readmission After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy (STS/ACC TVT) Registry

Hospital Practice of Direct‐Home Discharge and 30‐Day Readmission After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology Transcatheter Valve Therapy (STS/ACC TVT) Registry

BackgroundNearly 17% of patients are readmitted within 30 days of discharge after transcatheter aortic valve replacement. Selected patients are discharged to skilled nursing facilities, yet the association between a hospital's practice to discharge home versus to skilled nursing facilities, and...

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Main Authors: John A. Dodson, Mathew R. Williams, David J. Cohen, Pratik Manandhar, Sreekanth Vemulapalli, Caroline Blaum, Hua Zhong, John S. Rumsfeld, Judith S. Hochman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-08-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
geriatrics
hospital readmission
registry
transcatheter aortic valve implantation
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.117.006127

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