Clinical epidemiology of heart failure: Experience in a rural hospital

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-29

  Messner, Torbjörn ^a   Petersson, B O ^a  

^a Kiruna District Hospital   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Heart disease; Incidence; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SWEDEN;

EID: 0030094764     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1071-9164(96)80005-4     Document Type: Article

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