Rural-Urban Disparities in Heart Failure and Liver Cirrhosis Hospitalizations: A National Inpatient Sample Database Analysis (2016–2022)
Farah Yasmin, Yusra Mashkoor, Maryam Shahryar, Ahmad Barbour, Muhammad Sohaib Asghar, M. Chadi Alraies · 2026
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Farah Yasmin and co-authors compare rural and city hospital care in a 2026 United States study of patients who had both heart failure and liver cirrhosis. Together the two conditions raise the risk of kidney injury, infection and long stays. Whether place of care widens those risks on a national scale was the question.
Hospital records from 2016 to 2022 yielded close to half a million stays meeting the study rules. About fifteen percent occurred in non-city hospitals. Death during the stay was slightly higher in rural settings, while city stays ran a little longer and cost more after price adjustment. Matched comparisons gave the same picture. The authors call for better regional access and support for complex care outside large cities.
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| CREATOR | Farah Yasmin, Yusra Mashkoor, Maryam Shahryar, Ahmad Barbour, Muhammad Sohaib Asghar, M. Chadi Alraies |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 15 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |