Heart failure prognostic models: why bother?

Editorial

Keith D Aaronson et al. Circ Heart Fail. 2012 Jan.

. 2012 Jan;5(1):6-9.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.111.965848.

No abstract available

Comment on

Factors related to morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic heart failure with systolic dysfunction: the HF-ACTION predictive risk score model.
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