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.