ABC of heart failure: Heart failure in general practice
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Key result
Primary care HF diagnosis is often inaccurate, with only ~27% of cases showing objective cardiac dysfunction.
Population
Patients with suspected heart failure in general practice/primary care
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Implication
Urges caution relying solely on clinical diagnosis in primary care; leaves open optimal integration of objective testing.
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Patients with suspected heart failure in general practice/primary care
Highlights the difficulty of clinically diagnosing heart failure in primary care, noting that a large majority of suspected cases lack objective evidence of cardiac dysfunction.
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Richard Hobbs (2000) conducted a review in Heart failure. Clinical diagnosis of heart failure was evaluated. Clinical diagnosis of heart failure in primary care is often inaccurate, with studies showing only 22% to 32% of suspected cases have objective evidence of cardiac dysfunction.
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