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.

心力衰竭是老年人住院的常见原因，与其相关的死亡率及发病率均十分显著。为促进心力衰竭的流行病学研究，有必要为研究者提供高质量的数据库。尽管在西方国家已建立了多个心力衰竭数据库，但来自中国的相关数据却极为匮乏。理解中国与其他国家在患者群体及医疗体系方面的差异，对于提供最佳护理至关重要。为此，我们利用2016年至2019年间收集自四川省某医院入院患者的电子健康数据，构建了一个回顾性心力衰竭数据库。该数据库包含168个变量，涉及2,008例心力衰竭患者。