Return to the Workforce After First Hospitalization for Heart Failure: A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study
Authors' conclusion
Patients in the workforce before HF hospitalization had low mortality but high risk of detachment from the workforce 1 year later. Young age, male sex, and a higher level of education were predictors of return to work.
Study context
- Population
- Working-age (18–60 years) patients in the workforce before a first heart failure (HF) hospitalization, Denmark, 1997–2012of 21,455 working-age patients
- Participants
- 11,880 participants
- Outcome
- Return to work
- Follow-up
- 1 year after first HF hospitalization
Methodological detailsnationwide Danish registries, individual-level linkage
- Nationwide Danish registries
- Individual-level linkage
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Status 1 year after first HF hospitalization · 1 year
Returned to the workforce
8040
67.7%
Did not return
2981
25.1%
Died
805
6.7%
Emigrated
54
0.5%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
| Outcome | OR (95% CI) | |
|---|---|---|
| Predictors of return to workAge 18-30 vs Age 51-60 · logistic regression | 3.12 (2.42–4.03) | |
| Predictors of return to workLong-higher education vs Basic school · logistic regression | 2.06 (1.63–2.60) | |
| 0.20.5125Odds ratio (log scale) |
Predictors of return to work
| Comparison | OR (95% CI) | |
|---|---|---|
| Male sexLogistic regression | 1.22 (1.12–1.34) | |
| Hospital stay >7 daysLogistic regression | 0.56 (0.51–0.62) | |
| History of strokeLogistic regression | 0.55 (0.45–0.69) | |
| CKDLogistic regression | 0.46 (0.36–0.59) | |
| Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseLogistic regression | 0.62 (0.52–0.75) | |
| DMLogistic regression | 0.76 (0.68–0.85) | |
| CancerLogistic regression | 0.49 (0.40–0.61) | |
| 0.20.5125Odds ratio (log scale) |
Original publication
Return to the Workforce After First Hospitalization for Heart Failure: A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study. Circulation. Published 9 August 2016. doi:10.
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it