Mortality Risk Calculation
Heart Failure Model (SHFM)
A fairly sophisticated calculator allowing for determining 1,2,3 year mortality. A PDA download is also available. It's not applicable to the community hospitalist but would be of interest to anyone doing a heart failure clinic or research.
View the SHFM Model
EFFECT Heart Failure Mortality Prediction
The EFFECT Heart Failure Mortality Prediction is geared towards hospitalized patients and also provides a PDA download. This would be useful for risk stratification at the time of admission.
View the EFFECT Heart Failure Mortality Prediction
Risk Calculator (From the CART Study)
A risk stratification tool predicted in-hospital mortality in acute decompensated heart failure
Fonarow GC, Adams KF Jr., Abraham WT, Yancy CW, Boscardin WJ. Risk stratification for in-hospital mortality in acutely decompensated heart failure: classification and regression tree analysis. JAMA. 2005;293:572-80. [PubMed ID: 15687312 ]
The full version can be viewed at www.jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/293/5/572
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