Journal article
Assessments of Heart Failure and Frailty-Related Health Instability Provide Complementary and Useful Information for Home-Care Planning and Prognosis
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Health instability, measured with the Changes in Health and End-Stage Disease Signs and Symptoms (CHESS) scale, predicts hospitalizations and mortality in home-care clients. Heart failure (HF) is also common among home-care clients. We seek to understand how HF contributes to the odds of death, hospitalization, or worsening health among new home-care clients, depending on admission health instability.
METHODS: We undertook a …
Authors
Heckman GA; Hirdes JP; Hébert P; Costa A; Onder G; Declercq A; Nova A; Chen J; McKelvie RS
Journal
Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Vol. 37, No. 11, pp. 1767–1774
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
November 2021
DOI
10.1016/j.cjca.2021.07.009
ISSN
0828-282X