Increasing burden of psychiatric comorbidities amongst patients with Ischaemic Heart Disease

The impact of ethnicity on the prevalence and length of hospital stay in patients with mitral regurgitation

“…Greater home support and differences in health beliefs are postulated to affect LOS in ethnic minority patients. Similar studies conducted in the UK, examining LOS in patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Pulmonary Embolism, Myocardial Infarction, Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, Aortic Valve Disease, Ischaemic Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation also found statistically significant disparities in LOS amongst ethnic patient populations [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. In the US, African American patients presented for mitral valve surgery at a younger age and were less likely to undergo mitral valvuloplasty highlighting the need for improved screening [21].…”

“…Completely anonymous patient data was used and processed in accordance with local ethical research and development policy. The methodology has been previously described and used by our group and similar methodology has been used by other groups [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19].…”

The impact of psychiatric comorbidities on the length of hospital stay in patients with heart failure

“…We examined the impact of psychiatric co-morbidity on LoS in patients diagnosed with heart failure using an entirely anonymous database of adult patients compiled using the ACALM (Algorithm of Comorbidities, Associations, Length of stay and Mortality) study protocol which has been previously used and described by our group [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46] . hospitalizations, only the LoS data for their first hospitalization was included in the study.…”

Ethnic variations in length of hospital stay in patients with atrial fibrillation

“…Completely anonymous patient data was used and processed in accordance with local ethical research and development policy. The methodology has been previously described and used by our group and similar methodology has been used by other groups [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22].…”