A risk scoring system to identify emergency department patients with heart failure at high risk for serious adverse events

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-26

  Stiell, Ian G ^a   Clement, Catherine M ^b   Brison, Robert J ^d   Rowe, Brian H ^f   Borgundvaag, Bjug ^c   Aaron, Shawn D ^a   Lang, Eddy ^e   Calder, Lisa A ^a   Perry, Jeffrey J ^a   Forster, Alan J ^a   Wells, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK SCORING SYSTEM; SCORING SYSTEM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84872344573     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12056     Document Type: Article

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