Impact of diuretics use in long-term management of congestive heart failure patients to prevent re-hospitalization using the Diagnosis Procedure Combination Database - Impact of diuretics use in long-term management of congestive heart failure patients to prevent re-hospitalization using the Diagnosis Procedure Combination Database

In this study, compared to loop diuretics, additional tolvaptan treatment was not shown to be effective for the time to readmission due to heart failure. Re-hospitalization for heart failure has been shown to be associated with age, Na, creatinine, and prescriptions of ACE inhibitors or ARBs and thiazides. On the other hand, additional treatment with tolvaptan was shown to be significantly longer in terms of time to in-hospital death.