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  • Public Health
  • Health Services Research

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  • Hospital readmission rates after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and heart failure (HF) hospitalizations have decreased in the US following the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program.
  • Ontario, Canada, has not implemented similar policy incentives for reducing hospital readmissions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine temporal trends in readmission and mortality rates for AMI and HF patients in Ontario.
  • To compare these trends in a setting without specific readmission reduction policies.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of a cohort of AMI or HF patients aged 65+ hospitalized between 2006 and 2017.
  • Examination of primary outcomes: 30-day readmission and post-discharge mortality.
  • Assessment of secondary outcomes including in-hospital and 30-day mortality, with adjusted monthly trend analysis.

Main Results:

  • AMI hospitalization rates declined 32%, with 30-day readmissions decreasing from 17.4% to 14.7% and post-discharge mortality from 5.1% to 4.4%.
  • HF hospitalization rates declined slightly (9.1%), with 30-day readmissions largely unchanged until 2014 (21.9% to 20.8%) and post-discharge mortality decreasing from 7.1% to 6.6%.
  • Overall admissions, readmissions, and mortality rates for both AMI and HF declined during the study period.

Conclusions:

  • Outcome trends in Ontario align with US patterns for AMI but diverge for HF.
  • Further research is needed to understand country-specific differences in HF outcomes.
  • Declines in readmission and mortality were observed in Ontario for both conditions despite the absence of specific policy incentives.