Reducing readmissions for congestive heart failure

American Family Physician

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1593-1598

  Hoyt, Robert E ^a   Bowling, Lester Shawn ^a  

^a Naval Hospital Pensacola   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMLODIPINE BESYLATE; BISOPROLOL FUMARATE; BUMETANIDE; CAPTOPRIL; CARVEDILOL; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENALAPRIL MALEATE; FOSINOPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; LISINOPRIL; METOLAZONE; METOPROLOL TARTRATE; QUINAPRIL; RAMIPRIL; TORASEMIDE;

ADULT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE COURSE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG TOLERANCE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; DIURETICS; EXERCISE THERAPY; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 0035871546     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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