Validated, electronic health record deployable prediction models for assessing patient risk of 30-day rehospitalization and mortality in older heart failure patients

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 245-251

  Eapen, Zubin J ^a   Liang, Li ^a   Fonarow, Gregg C ^b   Heidenreich, Paul A ^c   Curtis, Lesley H ^a   Peterson, Eric D ^a   Hernandez, Adrian F ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic health records; Heart failure; Predictive models; Risk stratification

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE REGISTRY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LOW RISK POPULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HEART FAILURE; PREDICTIVE MODELS; RISK STRATIFICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PATIENT READMISSION; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84878645318     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2013.01.008     Document Type: Article

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