Predicting 30-Day Mortality for Patients With Acute Heart Failure in the Emergency Department

Saeid Safiri; Jamal Hallajzadeh; Erfan Ayubi

doi:10.7326/L18-0095

Letters |19 June 2018

Predicting 30-Day Mortality for Patients With Acute Heart Failure in the Emergency Department

Saeid Safiri, PhD; Jamal Hallajzadeh, PhD; Erfan Ayubi, PhD

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Miró and colleagues (1) aimed to predict 30-day mortality for patients with acute heart failure in the emergency department. They identified 13 independent risk factors and combined these into an overall score, the Multiple Estimation of risk based on the Emergency department Spanish Score In patients with AHF (MEESSI-AHF). They found that this score was an excellent predictor of 30-day mortality. Although their investigation has been valuable, some methodological issues need to be addressed.

First, scientists usually use combined outcomes, such as all-cause mortality, to improve the power of statistical tests. However, the authors mostly...

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