Influence of concomitant disease on patterns of hospitalization in patients with heart failure discharged from Scottish hospitals in 1995

European Heart Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1063-1069

  Brown, A M ^a   Cleland, John G F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concomitant diagnosis; Health economics; Heart failure; Hospital deaths and discharges; Resource use

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; THORAX PAIN; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCOTLAND; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032127913     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.1997.0859     Document Type: Article

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