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

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Class I Guidelines
1. Assessment should be made at each visit of the ability of a patient with HF to perform routine and desired activities of daily living. (Level of Evidence: C)

 ACC / AHA Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure: Class I Recommendation 1 for serial clinical assessment of patients presenting with heart failure should be: CLASS I CLASS IIa CLASS IIb CLASS III 2. Assessment should be made at each visit of the volume status and weight of a patient with HF. (Level of Evidence: C)

 ACC / AHA Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure: Class I Recommendation 2 for serial clinical assessment of patients presenting with heart failure should be: CLASS I CLASS IIa CLASS IIb CLASS III 3. Careful history of current use of alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, “alternative therapies,” and chemotherapy drugs, as well as diet and sodium intake, should be obtained at each visit of a patient with HF. (Level of Evidence: C)

 ACC / AHA Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure: Class I Recommendation 3 for serial clinical assessment of patients presenting with heart failure should be: CLASS I CLASS IIa CLASS IIb CLASS III