Huynh Q, et al. - Researchers investigated if regional markers of socioeconomic status (SES) were related to days at home (alive and out of hospital) following discharge of patients with heart failure (HF). Residential SES was measured by four indexes and a remoteness index generated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Statewide data of HF patients who had their first ever HF admission to a public hospital in Tasmania (Australia) during 2009-2012 was used. All four SES indices and the remoteness index were found to have an inverse association with days at home, independent of other clinical and non-clinical factors. Overall, residential SES was found to be related to adverse outcome in HF, and might be useful in planning services to reduce HF readmission.