Hot Off the Press: Prospective and Explicit Clinical Validation of the Ottawa Heart Failure Risk Scale, With and Without Use of Quantitative NT-proBNP.

Abstract

Summary This prospective cohort study included patients >50 years old with dyspnea of 1, the OHFRS would increase sensitivity from 71.8% to 91.8% for SAEs, but also increase admission rates. A threshold of >2 had a similar sensitivity, but decreased admissions (57.2% vs 48.3%.) Addition of NT-proBNP levels did not substantially change the results. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.