Identifying Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure at Risk for Unfavorable Future Quality of Life
Why the study?
Can readily available clinical characteristics at hospital discharge identify heart failure patients at high risk for persistently unfavorable quality of life or death?
Population
Patients hospitalized with heart failure at the time of hospital discharge
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
6 months
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
May identify high-risk HF patients at discharge for monitoring; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before guiding care.
Structured PICO
Can readily available clinical characteristics at hospital discharge identify heart failure patients at high risk for persistently unfavorable quality of life or death?
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Population
Patients hospitalized with heart failure at the time of hospital discharge
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Outcome
Persistently unfavorable quality of life (QoL) or death over the next 6 monthscomposite
Identifying clinical characteristics at discharge can help target high-risk heart failure patients for aggressive therapies or end-of-life discussions.
Cite This Study
Allen et al. (2011) studied this question.