Hospitalized patients with heart failure: integrating electronic healthcare records and external outcome data

Heart failure is a common reason for hospitalization in the elderly and it is
associated with significant mortality and morbidity. To facilitate
epidemiological studies of heart failure, there is a need for high quality
datasets to be made available to researchers. While several heart failure
datasets have been established in Western countries, there is a paucity of
data available from China. Understanding differences in patient populations
and healthcare systems between China and other countries is important in
providing optimal care. To help address this issue, we created a retrospective
heart failure dataset using electronic health data collected from patients who
were admitted to a hospital in Sichuan, China between 2016 and 2019. The
dataset includes 168 variables for 2,008 patients with heart failure.