Preferred Label : ER or Office Visit Due to Heart Failure;
NCIt related terms : URGENT HEART FAILURE VISIT;
NCIt definition : A finding of heart failure during a visit to the emergency room or a doctor's office.;
Alternative definition : CDISC: An event where the patient has an urgent, unscheduled office/practice or emergency
department visit for a primary diagnosis of heart failure (HF) but is not admitted
to the hospital, where the patient exhibits new or worsening symptoms of HF on presentation,
has objective evidence of new or worsening HF, and receives initiation or intensification
of treatment specifically for HF, with the exception that changes to oral diuretic
therapy do no qualify as initiation or intensification of treatment. (Hicks KA, Tcheng
JE, Bozkurt B, Chaitman BR, Cutlip DE, Farb A, Fonarow GC, Jacobs JP, Jaff MR, Lichtman
JH, Limacher MC, Mahaffey KW, Mehran, R, Nissen SE, Smith EE, Targum SL. 2014 ACC/AHA
Key Data Elements and Definitions For Cardiovascular Endpoint Events In Clinical Trials:
a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force
on Clinical Data Standards (Writing Committee to Develop Cardiovascular End Points
Data Standards) J Am Coll Cardiol 2014; In Press);
Origin ID : C119227;
UMLS CUI : C3899311;
Semantic type(s)
- concept_is_in_subset
