Adults with heart failure are at high risk for early rehospitalization. This risk may vary by patient, heart failure and provider characteristics. Clinical risk tools may help to stratify risk.The Yale risk calculator can help predict heart failure 30-day readmission:
The Center for Outcome Research and Evaluation (CORE) released an online readmission risk calculator for heart failure.You can view the CORE risk calculatorhere.
This tool is now available in the Target: HF App!
在线重新接纳风险计算器可以帮助公关edict a patient’s likelihood of hospital readmission for heart failure within 30 days of discharge. Despite the benefits of the heart failure readmission calculation, there are some limitations worth noting:
- This tool provides only an estimate of risk for readmission.
- The tool assumes that the performance of the treating hospital is average in terms they did not seek to limit the number of variables (as the calculation does) or to include information about in-hospital
- When CORE developed the risk adjustment model, adverse events.
- The calculator does not provide guidance on how to use the estimates.
Despite these limitations, the risk calculator can provide hospitals with valuable insights regarding possible readmission.
Hospitals should consider what transition care/care coordination strategies they should deploy to decrease 30-day readmission. Target: Heart Failure offers many tools and resources to hospitals. Find out what’s available atheart.org/targethf