Use of Digoxin in Elderly Patients Admitted to a Geriatric Unit of a General Hospital;Uso de Digital em Idosos Admitidos em Unidade de Geriatria de um Hospital Geral

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 695-698

  De Vasconcelos Cunha, Ulisses Gabriel ^a,b   Barbosa, Maira Tonidandel ^a   Paradela, Emylucy Martins Paiva ^a   Carvalho, Flávio Gomes ^a  

^a Hospital Governador Israel Pinheiro   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Digoxin; Elderly; Hospital

Indexed keywords

CARDIOTONIC AGENT; DIGOXIN;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; DIGOXIN; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG;

EID: 0032195491     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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