Elderly Heart Failure Patients with Pleural Effusion, 2014-2024 China

A 10-year retrospective cohort study from January 2014 to January 2024, analyzing 514 elderly patients with acute heart failure and moderate pleural effusion in China. The dataset compares outcomes between standard diuretic therapy and pleural drainage, focusing on time to pleurodesis and readmission rates. The data was shared by Yinghua Wang on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Compare hospital length of stay between treatment groups based on the time-to-discharge endpoint.
• Analyze readmission risk for elderly heart failure patients based on 90- and 180-day readmission rates.
• Study the relationship between therapeutic drainage and spontaneous pleurodesis based on the primary endpoint.
• Investigate renal function and electrolyte outcomes in different treatment groups as mentioned in the conclusion.

Strengths

• Includes 514 patient records from a multicenter study.
• Covers a 10-year time range from 2014 to 2024.
• Focuses on a specific clinical population: elderly (60-100 years) AHF patients with moderate pleural effusion.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to the study's retrospective, China-based design.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Yinghua Wang

Collection Method

Real-world multicenter, retrospective observational cohort study.

Time Range

January 2014 to January 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 05:23:02; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China