Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Statistics

• Nearly 5 million Americans are living with heart failure
• 400,000 to 700,000 newly diagnosed cases each year
• Annual cost of treating CHF is $25.8 billion
• Recurrent CHF accounts for 2/3 of hospital readmissions
• 53% of these readmissions are potentially preventable

Reasons for CHF Hospital Readmissions

1. Medication non-compliance (15%)
2. Diet non-compliance (15%)
3. Inadequate followup (18%)
4. Inadequate discharge planning (20%)
5. Failure to seek medical attention when symptoms
   recurred (20%)

Medication Non-Compliance

• Up to 60% of medications are not taken as prescribed
  1. Prescription not filled
  2. Take wrong medication
  3. Take wrong dose of medication
  4. Forget to take medication
  5. Over/under dosing
  6. Duplicate medications in the home
• 90% of elderly make medication errors
• 35% of these errors are potentially serious
• 50% of chronic patients stop taking medications or do not take medications as prescribed
• 40% of hospitalizations in the elderly are due to medication problems
• The cost of non-compliance is $100 billion per year

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