BACKGROUND Prognosis and mode of death in heart failure patients are highly variable in that some patients die suddenly (often from ventricular arrhythmia) and others die of progressive failure of cardiac function (pump failure). Prediction of mode of death may facilitate decisions about specific medications or devices. METHODS AND RESULTS We used the Seattle Heart Failure Model (SHFM), a val...

Prognostic scores for lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) have been mainly derived in a hospital setting. The current authors have developed and validated a prediction rule for the prognosis of acute LRTI in elderly primary-care patients. Data including demographics, medication use, healthcare use and comorbid conditions from 3,166 episodes of patients aged > or =65 yrs visiting the gener...

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is becoming a severe problem despite significant advancements in the usage of information and communication technology (ICT) health industry. Predicting an unexpected SCD person high importance. It might increase survival rate. In this work, we have developed automated method for predicting utilizing statistical measures. We extracted intrinsic attributes electrocardi...