FINGER-HF Prognostic Tool

FINGER-HF Prognostic Tool: Explanation and Clinical Context The FINGER-HF Prognostic Tool is designed to estimate the risk of adverse outcomes (such as mortality or heart-failure hospitalization) in patients with chronic heart failure by integrating demographic, haemodynamic, renal, biomarker and ventricular function parameters. It uses commonly available clinical variables — for example age, systolic blood pressure, heart rate, NT-proBNP, serum creatinine and left ventricular ejection fraction — to compute a risk score which is then translated into a percentage risk over a defined time-horizon. Clinically, this allows cardiologists to stratify patients into lower or higher risk categories and tailor management accordingly (more frequent follow-up, advanced therapies, device consideration, etc).