Validation of the Readmission Risk Score in Heart Failure Patients at a Tertiary Hospital

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 885-891

  Sudhakar, Selvin ^a   Zhang, Wei ^b   Kuo, Yong Fang ^b   Alghrouz, Mohammed ^b   Barbajelata, Alejandro ^b   Sharma, Gulshan ^b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; readmission; readmission risk score; readmission risk stratification

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; VALIDATION STUDY; ADULT; AGE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERY ELDERLY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AREA UNDER CURVE; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84946474947     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2015.07.010     Document Type: Article

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