Acute Congestive Heart Failure Urgent Care Evaluation (ACUTE)

Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Failure

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02634762

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Details and patient eligibility

About

This prospective validation study evaluates the ability of a risk algorithm, which can simultaneously predict the risk of death at 7 days and 30 days for patients with acute heart failure presenting to the emergency department. The risk algorithms for prediction of 7-day (Emergency Heart failure Mortality Risk Grade [EHMRG]) and 30-day mortality (EHMRG30-ST) have been previously derived.

Enrollment: 1,983 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with acute heart failure diagnosed in the emergency department

Exclusion criteria

• Palliative or do-not-resuscitate (DNR) directive
• Dialysis dependent