Predicting risk: developing and testing of a nomogram to predict hospitalisation in chronic heart failure (CHF- Risk Study)
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Betihavas, Vasiliki
Date
2013Supervisor
Prof. Patricia Davidson
Prof. Gavin Leslie
Prof. Peter Macdonald
Dr Phillip Newton
Type
Thesis
Award
PhD
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School of Nursing and Midwifery, Curtin Health Innovative Research Institute
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Abstract
Chronic heart failure (CHF) is the leading cause of hospital admission in the elderly. Currently, no absolute risk model for rehospitalisation exists. The CHF-Risk Study was a 3 phase study that led to the development of a nomogram using a derivation cohort of a contemporaneous Australian CHF population. Factors associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular rehospitalisation were: age; living alone; a sedentary lifestyle and the presence of multiple co-morbid conditions.
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