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    Predicting risk: developing and testing of a nomogram to predict hospitalisation in chronic heart failure (CHF- Risk Study)

    199890_Betihavas 2014.pdf (3.270Mb)
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    Authors
    Betihavas, Vasiliki
    Date
    2013
    Supervisor
    Prof. Patricia Davidson
    Prof. Gavin Leslie
    Prof. Peter Macdonald
    Dr Phillip Newton
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    School
    School of Nursing and Midwifery, Curtin Health Innovative Research Institute
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/552
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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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