GRACE score vs GWTG-HF score: risk stratification in acute heart failure

GRACE risk score vs TIMI risk score.

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Risk stratification in heart surgery: comparison of six score systems.

OBJECTIVE Risk scores have become an important tool in patient assessment, as age, severity of heart disease, and comorbidity in patients undergoing heart surgery have considerably increased. Various risk scores have been developed to predict mortality after heart surgery. However, there are significant differences between scores with regard to score design and the initial patient population on...

Acute heart failure risk stratification: can we define low risk?

The emergency department evaluation and management of patients who have potential acute heart failure syndromes (AHFS) has remained a significant challenge for decades. The emergency physician's diagnostic tools for heart failure have remained limited, and the complexity of the syndrome itself has led to risk-averse practice styles with extremely high admission rates. Recently, new diagnostic m...

The MESA heart failure risk score: can't we do more?

In 1987, Framingham Heart Study pioneer Dr William B Kannel wrote, ‘Epidemiologic data on incidence and prognosis of cardiac failure in the general population are actually quite sparse.’ Dr Kannel proceeded to report risk factors for heart failure identified in Framingham that included hypertension, ECG LV hypertrophy, obesity, diabetes, radiographic cardiac enlargement and cigarette use. Over ...

Should we perform a heart failure risk score?