Heart Health

Heart failure

Diagnosed heart failure? Yes

Routing stephf-yesNo one has reached this rule yet

Clinical review

All reviewers

No clinician has signed off this rule yet. It reflects our reading of the guidelines cited below, which has not been independently checked.

What someone who reaches this rule is told

This is a routing step: it says nothing itself, and decides which rule applies next. For the example person, that is Heart failure, reduced ejection fraction and Heart failure care at any ejection fraction.

An example person who reaches it

Heart failure with a weak pump” — an illustrative profile, not a real user.

67-year-old manBP 126/76LDL 105eGFR 58UACR 60 mg/gheart failure, EF 32%10-yr PREVENT-ASCVD 6.4%

Their path through heart failure

  1. Diagnosed heart failure?Yes ← this rule
  2. Ejection fraction — the number that decides the whole regimen40% or below (reduced)
  3. Care that applies at any ejection fractionAlways

Where it sits

Then asks: Care that applies at any ejection fraction

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Runs in lib/engine/heartFailurePathway.ts as hf-yes.