Coffee + Cardiology

Levy's Models

March 14, 2022 UW Heart Institute / Dr. Wayne Levy Season 1 Episode 8
Coffee + Cardiology
Levy's Models
Show Notes

This week the creator of the Seattle Heart Failure Model and Seattle Proportional Risk Model, Dr. Wayne Levy, joins us to discuss how the models were built, the continued evolution of the models, and future of these tools to support clinical decision making with guideline directed therapy.

1:20 - Seattle Heart Failure Model from the beginning
7:30 - Working with Statisticians
8:37 - Making Life Expectancy easier to understand
10:40 - Clinical Applications of the Model
11:35 - Feedback from Clinicians
16:00 - Challenges and successes in building a global model
19:10 - Upkeep and Evolution
22:22 - Barriers to new clinical datesets
23:50 - Future vision of the Model
25:11 - Why not the Levy Model
27:50 - Clinical Insights for risk prediction
33:40 - Defibrillator Paradox
36:15 - Seattle Proportional Risk Model
42:06 - Guideline directed therapy
46:50 - Play with the model
48:44 - Where is the model's future
53:40 - Use across the globe
57:45 - Access the tool and information - See below

Seattle Heart Failure Model
Seattle Proportional Risk Model

Dr, Levy can be reached at levywc@uw.edu