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

A retrospective cohort of 514 elderly patients with acute heart failure and moderate pleural effusion, comparing standard diuretic therapy to pleural drainage. The dataset was created by Yinghua Wang and last updated in April 2026. It contains clinical outcomes including time to spontaneous pleurodesis, readmission rates, and hospital length of stay.

Use Cases

• Compare treatment efficacy between diuretic therapy and pleural drainage based on time-to-event endpoints.
• Analyze readmission risk factors for elderly heart failure patients based on the reported hazard ratios.
• Model hospital length of stay based on treatment group and patient characteristics suggested by the study design.

Strengths

• Includes 514 patient records from a multicenter study.
• Covers a 10-year time range from January 2014 to January 2024.
• Focuses on a specific, clinically relevant 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 for the full screened population of 936, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the study's real-world, retrospective design in China.

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 05:22:59; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China