HEART FAILURE

LONG-TERM IMPLEMENTATION

Health status indicators

MORTALITY

Validated mortality rate: validated annual deaths from HF per 100,000 population in the following causes of death: heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, other primary cardiomyopathies, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, secondary cardiomyopathy, chronic cor pulmonale. ICD codes: ICD-9: 428.0, 428.1, 428.9, 402, 416, 425.4, 425.5, 425.9 and ICD-10:  I27.9, I50, I11, I42.5, I42.8, I42.6, I42.9

MORBIDITY

Validated hospital discharge rate: validated annual HF hospitalisations per 100,000 population in the following diagnoses: heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, other primary, cardiomyopathies, alcoholic cardiomyopathy, secondary cardiomyopathy, chronic cor pulmonale. ICD codes: ICD-9: 428.0, 428.1, 428.9, 402, 416, 425.4, 425.5, 425.9 and ICD-10: I27.9, I50, I11, I42.5, I42.8, I42.6, I42.9

Attack rate/incidence rate of HF: validated hospitalisations for symptomatic HF and HF deaths per 100,000
population. ICD codes: non-fatal HF and HF deaths (ICD-9: 428.0, 428.1, 428.9, 402, 416, 425.4, 425.5, 425.9 and ICD-10: I27.9, I50, I11, I42.5, I42.8, I42.6, I42.9)

Prevalence of HF: number of patients with HF per 100,000 population. ICD codes: heart failure: based on Framingham or Boston or ESC criteria.

DISABILITY

Functional disability and quality of life: proportion of patients affected by HF impaired in ADL or positive to EuroQol questionnaire.

Health system indicators

HEALTH CARE UTILISATION

Median length of stay: median number of days spent in hospital per patient. ICD codes: ICD-9 428 and ICD-10 I50