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Proportion of false positives and number of events for hospitalized and outpatient heart failure, ARIC cohort members enrolled in Medicare Fee-for-Service, 2000–2012
The look-back period is used to exclude patients with prevalent heart failure prior to the index date. Proportion of false positives was calculated as the proportion of incident HF events in a given look-back period relative to the number of true incident HF events.
