The millon behavioral health inventory life threat reactivity scale as a predictor of mortality in patients awaiting heart transplantation

Psychosomatics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 44-49

  Coffman, Kathy L ^a   Brandwin, Marvin ^a  

^a ST VINCENT MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FOLLOW UP; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; MORTALITY; PERSONALITY; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOLOGY; THREAT;

EID: 0032904261     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3182(99)71270-3     Document Type: Article

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