The study site was an urban, academic medical center with approximately 60,000 annual adult ED visits. The institution’s heart failure service maintains a database of all patients who have received LVADs at the institution. We queried a health record database for ED encounters by all 349 patients who had LVADs during the study period. Encounters that occurred prior to a patient’s LVAD placement or after heart transplant were excluded.
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