The Effect of Psychosocial Risk Factors on Outcomes After Aortic Valve Replacement

Association of Psychosocial Risk Factors and Outcomes in Heart Failure: Does COVID-19 Affect Outcomes?

“…Although we cannot clearly explain why the mortality risk of patients with PSRFs increased during the COVID era, one of the possible reasons could be that the standard of care for HF treatment for hospitalized patients was not maintained enough in the beginning phase of the pandemic. Additionally, the conversion of cardiology wards and heart failure units to COVID-19 wards and the reallocation of healthcare professionals to care for COVID-19 patients affected the care of HF patients 12 , 28 . However, Shoaib et al showed a significant rise in mortality from HF within 30 days of discharge during the COVID-19 pandemic despite the same practice of guideline-recommended medical therapy and interventions.…”

“…Psychosocial risk factors were classified into five domains based on previous work 12 : psychiatric disease, limited cognitive understanding, substance use disorder, uninsured status, and low socioeconomic status. The presence of ≥1 factor was used to define the cohort of patients with PSRFs.…”

Association Between Psychosocial Risk Factors and Readmissions After Acute Myocardial Infarction: Role of COVID-19 Pandemic

“…Exposure of interest was the presence of PSRFs. The factors were categorized into 5 domains based on previous work 11 and chosen since they could be extracted from the NRD: limited cognitive understanding, substance use disorder, psychiatric disease, uninsured status, and low socioeconomic status ( Table S1 ). Patients were classified as having PSRF if they had at least 1 positive factor from any domain.…”