Performance of risk models to predict mortality risk for patients with heart failure: evaluation in an integrated health system.

Journal: Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Referral of patients with heart failure (HF) who are at high mortality risk for specialist evaluation is recommended. Yet, most tools for identifying such patients are difficult to implement in electronic health record (EHR) systems.

Authors

  • Faraz S Ahmad
    Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
  • Ted Ling Hu
    Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Eric D Adler
    Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA, USA.
  • Lucia C Petito
    Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Ramsey M Wehbe
    Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 676 North St. Clair Street, Suite 600, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/ramseywehbemd.
  • Jane E Wilcox
    Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 676 North Saint Clair Street, Suite 600, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA.
  • R Kannan Mutharasan
    Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (R.K.M., F.S.A., H.C.G.), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
  • Beatrice Nardone
    Institute for Augmented Intelligence in Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
  • Matevz Tadel
    Physics Department, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
  • Barry Greenberg
    Department of Cardiology, University of California, San Diego, California, USA.
  • Avi Yagil
    Department of Cardiology, University of California, San Diego, California, USA.
  • Claudio Campagnari
    Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA.