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1992 • 45,923 citations

A new method of classifying prognostic comorbidity in longitudinal studies: Development and validation

1987 • 44,619 citations

Nonparametric Estimation from Incomplete Observations

1958 • 37,219 citations

Applied logistic regression

1990 • 37,000 citations

The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve.

1982 • 20,275 citations

A method of comparing the areas under receiver operating characteristic curves derived from the same cases.

1983 • 6,923 citations

The Effect of Carvedilol on Morbidity and Mortality in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure

1996 • 4,580 citations

Asymptotically Efficient Rank Invariant Test Procedures

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Plasma Norepinephrine as a Guide to Prognosis in Patients with Chronic Congestive Heart Failure

1984 • 3,130 citations

Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis.

1993 • 2,960 citations

Evaluating the Yield of Medical Tests

1982 • 2,957 citations

Elevated Circulating Levels of Tumor Necrosis Factor in Severe Chronic Heart Failure

1990 • 2,566 citations

Effect of Vasodilator Therapy on Mortality in Chronic Congestive Heart Failure

1986 • 2,409 citations

Value of peak exercise oxygen consumption for optimal timing of cardiac transplantation in ambulatory patients with heart failure.

1991 • 1,807 citations

Regression modelling strategies for improved prognostic prediction

1984 • 1,693 citations

Clinical Prediction Rules

1985 • 1,381 citations

Beneficial effects of metoprolol in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

1993 • 1,218 citations

Hormones regulating cardiovascular function in patients with severe congestive heart failure and their relation to mortality. CONSENSUS Trial Study Group.

1990 • 1,151 citations

Best Subsets Logistic Regression

1989 • 1,122 citations

A randomized trial of beta-blockade in heart failure. The Cardiac Insufficiency Bisoprolol Study (CIBIS). CIBIS Investigators and Committees.

1994 • 1,051 citations

Survival in men with severe chronic left ventricular failure due to either coronary heart disease or idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

1983 • 684 citations

Factors influencing the one-year mortality of dilated cardiomyopathy

1984 • 568 citations

Prognostic importance of serum sodium concentration and its modification by converting-enzyme inhibition in patients with severe chronic heart failure.

1986 • 555 citations

Regression models for prognostic prediction: advantages, problems, and suggested solutions.

1985 • 554 citations

Ejection fraction, peak exercise oxygen consumption, cardiothoracic ratio, ventricular arrhythmias, and plasma norepinephrine as determinants of prognosis in heart failure. The V-HeFT VA Cooperative Studies Group.

1993 • 542 citations

Tumor Necrosis Factor Soluble Receptors in Patients With Various Degrees of Congestive Heart Failure

1995 • 534 citations

Correlates and prognostic implication of exercise capacity in chronic congestive heart failure

1985 • 505 citations

Heart failure: Evaluation and care of patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction

1995 • 465 citations

Clinical determinants of mortality in chronic congestive heart failure secondary to idiopathic dilated or to ischemic cardiomyopathy

1987 • 465 citations

Significance of ventricular arrhythmias in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

1984 • 427 citations

Ejection fraction, peak exercise oxygen consumption, cardiothoracic ratio, ventricular arrhythmias, and plasma norepinephrine as determinants of prognosis in heart failure

1993 • 423 citations

Influence of preoperative pulmonary artery pressure on mortality after heart transplantation: Testing of potential reversibility of pulmonary hypertension with nitroprusside is useful in defining a high risk group

1992 • 414 citations

Predictors of total mortality and sudden death in mild to moderate heart failure

1989 • 405 citations

Prognosis in severe heart failure: Relation to hemodynamic measurements and ventricular ectopic activity

1983 • 395 citations

Prognostic importance of atrial natriuretic peptide in patients with chronic heart failure

1989 • 354 citations

Prognosis of congestive heart failure and predictors of mortality

1988 • 272 citations

Prognostic guides in patients with idiopathic or ischemic dilated cardiomyopathy assessed for cardiac transplantation

1990 • 270 citations

Why Predictive Indexes Perform Less Well in Validation Studies

1987 • 200 citations

Prognostic value of an abnormal signal-averaged electrocardiogram in patients with nonischemic congestive cardiomyopathy.

1993 • 183 citations

Predictors of prognosis in severe chronic heart failure

1992 • 175 citations

Nonsustained Ventricular Tachycardia in Ambulatory Patients: Characteristics and Association with Sudden Cardiac Death

1980 • 173 citations

Integrating Stratum-specific Likelihood Ratios with the Analysis of ROC Curves

1993 • 138 citations

Predictors of prognosis in patients awaiting heart transplantation.

1993 • 111 citations

The impending crisis awaiting cardiac transplantation. Modeling a solution based on selection.

1994 • 108 citations

Is percentage of predicted maximal exercise oxygen consumption a better predictor of survival than peak exercise oxygen consumption for patients with severe heart failure?

1995 • 106 citations

Incremental prognostic value of exercise hemodynamic variables in chronic congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease or to dilated cardiomyopathy

1991 • 90 citations

Prediction of outcome in late-stage cardiomyopathy

1990 • 90 citations

Tailored therapy before transplantation for treatment of advanced heart failure: effective use of vasodilators and diuretics.

1991 • 87 citations

Rationale for Treatment of Patients With Chronic Heart Failure With Adrenergic Blockade

1995 • 81 citations

Long-term predictors of sudden and low output death in chronic congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease

1989 • 78 citations

Clinical and hemodynamic predictors of survival in patients aged <65 years with severe congestive heart failure secondary to ischemic or nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy

1993 • 74 citations

Target Heart Failure Populations for Newer Therapies

1995 • 70 citations

Prognostic value of plasma catecholamines, plasma renin activity, and plasma atrial natriuretic peptide at rest and during exercise in congestive heart failure: Comparison with clinical evaluation, ejection fraction, and exercise capacity

1995 • 38 citations

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1955 • 0 citations