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

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Class IIa Guidelines
1. Repeat measurement of EF and the severity of structural remodeling can provide useful information in patients with HF who have had a change in clinical status or who have experienced or recovered from a clinical event or received treatment that might have had a significant effect on cardiac function. (Level of Evidence: C)

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