Burden of hospitalizations in newly diagnosed heart failure patients in Poland: real world population based study in years 2013-2019.

Aims: We aim to report trends in unplanned hospitalizations among newly diagnosed heart failure patients with regard to hospitalizations types and their impact on outcomes.

Methods And Results: A nation-wide study of all citizens in Poland with newly diagnosed heart failure based on ICD-10 coding who were beneficiaries of either public primary, secondary, or hospital care between 2013 and 2018 in Poland. Between 1 January 2013 and 31 December 2019, there were 1 124 118 newly diagnosed heart failure patients in Poland in both out- and inpatient settings.