2007
Identifying Heart Failure Patients at High Risk for Near-Term Cardiovascular Events With Serial Health Status Assessments
Kosiborod M, Soto GE, Jones PG, Krumholz HM, Weintraub WS, Deedwania P, Spertus JA. Identifying Heart Failure Patients at High Risk for Near-Term Cardiovascular Events With Serial Health Status Assessments. Circulation 2007, 115: 1975-1981. PMID: 17420346, DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.106.670901.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsKansas City Cardiomyopathy QuestionnaireHeart failure outpatientsHealth status assessmentCause mortalityCardiovascular mortalityKaplan-Meier survival analysisHigh-risk patientsHeart failure patientsAcute myocardial infarctionProportional hazards modelIntensity of treatmentStatus assessmentKCCQ scoresCardiovascular deathCardiovascular eventsClinical deteriorationMultivariable adjustmentFailure patientsHeart failureOutpatient visitsMyocardial infarctionHigh riskHospitalizationPatientsCombined outcome
2005
Monitoring clinical changes in patients with heart failure: A comparison of methods
Spertus J, Peterson E, Conard MW, Heidenreich PA, Krumholz HM, Jones P, McCullough PA, Pina I, Tooley J, Weintraub WS, Rumsfeld JS, Consortium F. Monitoring clinical changes in patients with heart failure: A comparison of methods. American Heart Journal 2005, 150: 707-715. PMID: 16209970, DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2004.12.010.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsClinical changesHeart failureWalk testNew York Heart AssociationHeart failure measuresHealth status instrumentsHighest c-statisticClinical deteriorationWalk distanceClinical statusPatient weightC-statisticHeart AssociationExercise testKCCQIndividual patientsNYHAPatientsDisease statusFunctional classClinical medicineLarge improvementStatusDeteriorationOutpatients