December 9, 2017Current Opinion in Cardiology
Exercise testing in heart failure
Population
Patients with heart failure
Design
Review
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
May aid HF prognostication; leaves open whether fitness-guided therapy improves outcomes.
Structured PICO
P
Population
Patients with heart failure
I
Intervention
Exercise testing and assessment of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF)
O
Outcome
Prognostic utility and individualized strategies for improving outcome
Exercise testing and cardiorespiratory fitness assessment provide independent and incremental prognostic value in patients with heart failure, supporting individualized management strategies.
Cite This Study
Moneghetti et al. (2017) studied this question.