Mortality risk and patterns of practice in 4606 acute care patients with congestive heart failure: The relative importance of age, sex, and medical therapy

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 1669-1673

  Teo, K K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CARDIAC AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; MAGNESIUM; NITRATE; POTASSIUM; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0029849767     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.156.15.1669     Document Type: Article

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