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Health Status Identifies Heart Failure Outpatients at Risk for Hospitalization or Death

Paul A. Heidenreich, MD, MS^_*,_*, John A. Spertus, MD, MPH, Philip G. Jones, MS, William S. Weintraub, MD, John S. Rumsfeld, MD, PhD, Saif S. Rathore, MPH^||, Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH^¶, Frederick A. Masoudi, MD, MSPH^#, Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, MS,^||, Edward P. Havranek, MD^#, Mark W. Conard, PhD, Randall E. Williams, MD^_** for the Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Consortium

^_* VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California
Mid America Heart Institute of Saint Luke's Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Denver VA Medical Center, Denver, Colorado
^|| Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
^¶ Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
^# Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado
^_** Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 The association between the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) summary score and New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class is shown. Patients with lower scores had a higher NYHA functional class.

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 One-year hospitalization for heart failure (HF) is shown for patients grouped by Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) summary score. Those with the lowest scores had the highest rate of heart failure admission.

View larger version (14K): [in a new window]   Figure 3 All-cause mortality is shown for outpatients with heart failure grouped by Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) summary score. Those with the lowest scores had the highest mortality.

View larger version (10K): [in a new window]   Figure 4 Survival free from heart failure hospitalization is shown for outpatients according the baseline Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ) summary score. Patients with the lowest scores had the worse event-free survival.