Heart & lung : the journal of critical care
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Comparative Study
Patient perception and provider assessment of severity of heart failure as predictors of hospitalization.
To assess the agreement between 2 methods of assigning New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class to patients with chronic heart failure (CHF): deriving NYHA class from self-report interview data versus clinician assignment. To then determine the ability of each method to predict all-cause hospitalization. ⋯ There is only slight agreement between patient-derived and clinician-assigned NYHA functional class. A different approach with patients may be needed if providers hope to use patients' reports to identify those at risk for hospitalization.