In adults with heart failure, which validated risk tools best identify patients with heart failure who are at increased risk of mortality in the short term (up to 1 year)?
The objective of this review is to determine which prognostic risk tools are the most accurate at predicting patient mortality, to support decisions about involvement of palliative care services and the use of palliative care processes. The population of interest is people with heart failure in a community or outpatient setting, and tools that are derived or validated in patients who are in an acute setting will also be included. The results will be stratified based on the setting in which the tools were validated in the study (admitted versus recently discharged versus community).