2021 ACC/AHA Key Data Elements and Definitions for Heart Failure: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Data Standards (Writing Committee to Develop Clinical Data Standards for Heart Failure)
The American Heart Association requests that this document be cited as follows: Bozkurt B, Hershberger RE, Butler J, Grady KL, Heidenreich PA, Isler ML, Kirklin JK, Weintraub WS. 2021 ACC/AHA key data elements and definitions for heart failure: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Data Standards (Writing Committee to Develop Clinical Data Standards for Heart Failure). Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2021;14:e000102. doi: 10.1161/HCQ.0000000000000102
This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Clinical Policy Approval Committee in October 2020, by the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in September 2020, and by the American Heart Association Executive Committee in December 2020.
Appendix 4 includes data elements used to describe congenital heart disease obtained from the International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code (IPCCC) as published by the International Society for Nomenclature of Paediatric and Congenital Heart Disease (ISNPCHD) (https://ipccc.net/).
Supplemental materials (Data Supplement [Appendix 4 in an Excel file] and a Comprehensive RWI table) are available with this article at https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/suppl/10.1161/HCQ.0000000000000102
This article has been copublished in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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