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Introduction
Although lower socioeconomic status (SES) has been associated with worse in‐hospital outcomes among patients with heart failure, the in‐hospital outcomes for patients undergoing durable Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) implantation or Heart Transplantation (HT) based on SES have not been well characterized.
Methods
We analyzed data from the National Inpatient Sample of hospitalizations...