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Screening tools and processes |
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Screening tools and processes
There are several artificial intelligence/machine learning/digital tools to support primary care to help identify someone with probable heart failure. These tools can search and link heart failure symptoms, investigations, previous diagnosis and prescriptions together to identify someone who you may want to consider a clinical review.
NOTE: Some of these tools are free and some incur a charge. As these are commercial companies that operate the screening tools, The British Society for Heart Failure remains neutral and therefore does not endorse any commercial products.
In non-heart failure, cardiovascular and other long-term conditions, the addition of questions around heart failure symptoms (breathlessness/exercise tolerance, PND, orthopnoea and fluid retention) may help identify people with heart failure at and earlier stage as well as searching for previous coding may help i.e.
- NYHA Classification;
- Nicor ICD codes; and
- SNOMED-CT codes.
Contents:
- Detection
- Diagnosis
- Acute Heart Failure: Diagnosis and management
- Chronic heart failure: Management and treatment
- Discharge and follow-up
- Palliative and psychological care
- Digital support
In this section
- Detection - Home
- Rationale for detection
- Settings and opportunities
- Symptoms
- Chronic conditions and risk factors
- Undetected HF in GP registers
- Screening
- Resources for detection
