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Prediction of hospital readmission for heart failure: development of a simple risk score based on administrative data

Edward F. Philbin, MD, FACC^* and Thomas G. DiSalvo, MD, MSc

^* Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Heart Failure and Transplantation Center, Cardiac Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

View larger version (23K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Rates of hospital readmission for congestive heart failure (CHF) observed among 21,504 patients in the validation subset based on their simple risk score.