The New York University Pediatric Heart Failure Index: A new method of quantifying chronic heart failure severity in children
| Autor: | Marcelo Auslender, Monika Rutkowski, Dana Connolly, Michael Artman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Heart disease New York Guidelines as Topic Severity of Illness Index Age groups Severity of illness medicine Humans Child Heart Failure business.industry Age Factors Infant Newborn Infant Reproducibility of Results Surgical correction Prognosis medicine.disease Regimen El Niño Child Preschool Heart failure Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Cardiac defects Feasibility Studies Female business |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Pediatrics. 138:644-648 |
| ISSN: | 0022-3476 |
| Popis: | Objective: The assessment of the severity of heart failure in pediatric patients is handicapped by the subjectivity of diagnostic parameters. This study evaluated the feasibility of a new standardized heart failure index, the New York University Pediatric Heart Failure Index (NYU PHFI), to quantify the degree of heart failure in a selected pediatric population. Methods and Results: The index is a weighted, linear combination of scores based on symptoms, physical signs, and medical regimen. Overall, healthy children (n = 12) scored very low (0 to 2) on this index. Mean scores of children ( |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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