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2016

Exploratory factor analysis

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Development Of The Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Risk Model For Emergency Room Resident Training, Zora Cvetkovski-Injic Jan 2016

Development Of The Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Risk Model For Emergency Room Resident Training, Zora Cvetkovski-Injic

Wayne State University Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to characterize patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure with and without low systolic blood pressure using exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Direct and surrogate measurements were measured. The aim was to use EFA for data reduction to elicit a parsimonious set of factors summarizing the relationships between variables by measuring intercorrelations of the clinical variables collected as part of standard care, and abstracted from electronic medical records.

A better understanding of the characteristics and outcomes of the target group could potentially lead to individualized treatment modalities tailored to effectively and economically improve care. Patients …