The Living Guidelines: Serial Clinical Assessment of Patients Presenting with Heart Failure. Polling Results for CLASS IIb Guidelines

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Class IIb Guidelines
1. The value of serial measurements of BNP to guide therapy for patients with HF is not well established. (Level of Evidence: C)

 ACC / AHA Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure: Class IIb Recommendation 1 for serial clinical assessment of patients presenting with heart failure should be: CLASS I CLASS IIa CLASS IIb CLASS III