Management of patients with heart failure: Are internists as good as cardiologists?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 530-531

  Bonarjee, V V S ^a   Dickstein, K ^a  

^a STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; INOTROPIC AGENT; SPIRONOLACTONE;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HOLTER MONITORING; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; ITALY; KIDNEY DISEASE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; CARDIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0034941849     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.2000.2518     Document Type: Editorial

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