Borovac JA, et al. - Researchers developed a simple risk score for predicting 1-year all-cause death event following hospitalization for acute heart failure (AHF) using 300 patients with AHF from the Heart Failure registry. They classified patients into three risk categories: low (0-2 points), intermediate (3 points), and high (4-6 points). A high level of discrimination for an all-cause death event was displayed by the S₂PLiT-UG score in the derivation cohort, with a c-statistic value of 0.907 and adequate calibration. Overall, this score, which appeared a simple tool, holds potential to help facilitate risk stratification and therapeutic decision-making during the first year following hospitalization for an AHF event.