Abstract 218: Major Therapeutic Cardiac Procedures in the Very Elderly: All-Payer Race-Gender Disparities and Temporal Trends

Objectives: Major therapeutic cardiac procedures include open heart surgery (e.g., coronary artery bypass graft, valv/septum repairs) (OPEN), insertion/repair of pacemakers, internal defibrillators, and related devices (PACE), and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). The use of these procedures among patients aged > 85 years has not been well-described. Methods: Inpatient records for adults aged > 85 years were obtained from a comprehensive all-payer hospital discharge database for Florida for 2006-2011. Major cardiac procedures were identified by ICD-9-CM codes. Patient race/ethnicity (non-Hispanic White, Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black), gender, payer, principal/secondary diagnoses, and in-hospital mortality were analyzed for each procedure type. Annual procedure rates were calculated using US Census population estimates. Results: There were 2,497,573 person-years at risk for the period 2006-2011, with a total of 1,355,308 inpatient hospitalizations in this very elderly population. Medicare coverage r...