Heart Failure in Outpatients: A Randomized Trial of Digoxin versus Placebo

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 306, Issue 12, 1982, Pages 699-705

  Lee, Daniel Chia Sen ^a   Johnson, Robert Arnold ^a   Bingham, John B ^a   Leahy, Marianne ^a   Dinsmore, Robert E ^a   Goroll, Allan H ^a   Newell, John B ^a   Strauss, H William ^a   Haber, Edgar ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGOXIN; FUROSEMIDE; PLACEBO;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HEART; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPY; THIRD HEART SOUND;

EID: 0020042810     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198203253061202     Document Type: Article

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