Digoxin Use and Lower 30-day All-cause Readmission for Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized for Heart Failure Ali Ahmed, MD, MPH, Robert C. Bourge, MD,

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Digoxin Use and Lower 30-day All-cause Readmission for Medicare Beneficiaries Hospitalized for Heart Failure Ali Ahmed, MD, MPH, Robert C. Bourge, MD, Gregg C. Fonarow, MD, Kanan Patel, MBBS, MPH, Charity J. Morgan, PhD, Jerome L. Fleg, MD, Inmaculada B. Aban, PhD, Thomas E. Love, PhD, Clyde W. Yancy, MD, Prakash Deedwania, MD, Dirk J. van Veldhuisen, MD, PhD, Gerasimos S. Filippatos, MD, PhD, Stefan D. Anker, MD, PhD, Richard M. Allman, MD The American Journal of Medicine Volume 127, Issue 1, Pages 61-70 (January 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.08.027 Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Love plot displaying absolute standardized differences for 55 baseline characteristics between heart failure patients receiving and not receiving a new discharge prescription for digoxin, before and after propensity score matching. AMI = acute myocardial infarction; ECG = electrocardiogram. The American Journal of Medicine 2014 127, 61-70DOI: (10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.08.027) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions

Figure 2 Kaplan-Meier plots for 30-day all-cause hospital readmission in a propensity-matched cohort of older heart failure patients receiving and not receiving a new discharge prescription for digoxin (CI = confidence interval). The American Journal of Medicine 2014 127, 61-70DOI: (10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.08.027) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions

Figure 3 Association of new discharge prescriptions for digoxin with 30-day all-cause hospital readmission in subgroups of propensity-matched older heart failure patients. CI = confidence interval. The American Journal of Medicine 2014 127, 61-70DOI: (10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.08.027) Copyright © 2014 Elsevier Inc. Terms and Conditions