Predicting worsening heart failure hospitalizations in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators: is it all about alerts? A pooled analysis of nine trials.

Since the score is updated daily by a numerical processing of several physiologic parameters, these findings support the hypothesis that the score temporal trend incorporates information linked to the patient’s HF status and that an increasing trend may reflect worsening HF conditions regardless of the alert status.

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