Reply to “Simple Methods for Predicting Cardiovascular Readmission After a Heart Failure Hospitalization”

We thank Dr. Tomoyuki Kawada for his comments on our recent article.1,2 Dr. Kawada's suggestion about conducting the analyses using Cox proportional hazards models to generate hazard ratios is a reasonable alternative approach. We chose to conduct a multinomial logistic regression in large part because we aimed to concurrently examine multiple outcomes including cardiovascular and noncardiovascular readmission (compared to no readmission). Although time-to-event could potentially add to the findings here, we would argue that 30-day readmission is an untoward event with important implications on cost, morbidity, and quality of life3,4 regardless of the time-to-readmission.
Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Authors: Source Type: research