TriageHF® in Real-World Practice: The Limits of “No News Is Good News”
Masataka Kawana · 2026
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Masataka Kawana examines a device-based heart failure alert system in a 2026 commentary on real-world performance. Many patients already carry implanted heart devices that collect daily data at no extra procedure cost. One system blends chest fluid, activity, night heart rate and rhythm data into a daily risk score for the next month.
A modest real-world cohort discussed here had far more events during high-risk periods than during standard-risk periods. Even so, the score missed most events and raised many false alarms, with only modest overall accuracy. Kawana also cautions that counting whole stretches of high-risk days, rather than single days or months, makes direct comparison with earlier studies tricky. Quiet periods, he argues, should not be read as a guarantee of safety.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Masataka Kawana |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 8 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |