Table 2.
Critical appraisal table, 8 items.
| Study Population | Study Author + Year +Reference | Adequate Number of Patients in HF-Population <200 or >200 <200 = −1 & >200 = 0) | Valid and Reliable Measurement of Prognostic Variable; CO Thermodilution or Fick (Thermodilution/Unknown = −1 & Fick = 0) | Outcome Measurement Valid and Reliable: Absence (−1) or Presence (0) of Adjudication Commision/Cheched Externally | Study Attrition (Follow-Up Done in 90% or > of Patient Population) (N = −1 & Y = 0) | Age (or Other Important Predictive Variable) in MV-Analysis (N = −1 & Y = 0) | At Least 2 Other UV Significant Variables for HF in UV-Analysis (N = −1 & Y = 0) | n Events? < 50 or > 50 (<50 = N = −1 & >50 = Y = 0) | Ratio: n Events/n Variables > 10 (N = −1 & Y = 0) | Total # of Weak Points on Critical Appraisal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHF | Denardo et al. (2016) [19] | −1 | thermodilution = −1 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −1 | −6 |
| Fauchier et al. (1997) [20] | −1 | Unknown = −1 | −1 | 0 | −1 | 0 | −1 | −1 | −6 | |
| Franciosa et al. (1983) [21] | −1 | thermodilution = −1 | −1 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | −1 | −5 | |
| Guzzetti et al. (2005) [22] | 0 | unknown = −1 | −1 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −4 | |
| HTX | Anguita et al. (1993) [23] | −1 | unknown = −1 | −1 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −5 |
| Chomsky et al. (1996) [24] | −1 | thermodilution = −1 | −1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −1 | −5 | |
| Gardner et al. (2005) [25] | −1 | thermodilution = −1 | −1 | 0 | −1 | 0 | −1 | −1 | −6 | |
| Ghio et al. (2001) [26] | 0 | thermodilution = −1 | −1 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | |
| Grigioni et al. (2006) [27] | 0 | unknown = −1 | −1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −3 | |
| Metra et al. (1999) [28] | 0 | thermodilution = −1 | −1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −1 | −4 | |
| Middlekauff et al. (1991) [29] | 0 | unknown = −1 | −1 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −4 | |
| Morley (1994) [30] | −1 | thermodilution = −1 | −1 | 0 | −1 | −1 | 0 | −1 | −6 | |
| Sachdeva et al. (2010) [31] | 0 | unknown = −1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | |
| Sobieszczańska-Malek et al. (2014) [32] | 0 | thermodilution = −1 | −1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −3 | |
| Stevenson et al. (1990) [33] | −1 | thermodilution = −1 | −1 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −5 | |
| ADHF | Aronson et al. (2011) [34] | 0 | unknown = −1 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −3 |
| Cohn et al. (1984) [35] | −1 | thermodilution = −1 | −1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −4 | |
| Cooper et al. (2016) [36] | −1 | thermodilution = −1 | −1 | 0 | −1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −4 | |
| HFPEF | Dorfs et al. (2014) [37] | 0 | Fick = 0 | −1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −2 |
| Goliasch et al. (2015) [38] | −1 | thermodilution = −1 | −1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | −1 | −5 |