Why the study?
Can multivariable models using readily available clinical variables predict mortality and hospitalization in patients with heart failure?
Can multivariable models using readily available clinical variables predict mortality and hospitalization in patients with heart failure?
Predictors for mortality and heart failure hospitalization differ remarkably, though both can be prognosticated using a small number of readily available clinical variables.
May inform separate risk models for mortality versus HF hospitalization using routine variables; leaves open prospective validation.
A small number of variables, which are usually readily available in the routine clinical setting, provide useful prognostic information for patients with HF. Predictors of mortality were remarkably different from predictors of hospitalization owing to HF.
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