Correlates of major complications or death in patients admitted to the hospital with congestive heart failure

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 1814-1820

  Chin, Marshall H ^a,b,f   Goldman, Lee ^a,b,c,d,e,g  

^a Section for Clinical Epidemiology   (United States)

^b Division of General Medicine and Primary Care   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEATH; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK;

EID: 0029816077     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.156.16.1814     Document Type: Article

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