Deaths from heart failure in general practice: Implications for palliative care

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 495-498

  Seamark, David A ^a   Ryan, Mary ^b   Smallwood, Neil ^c   Gilbert, James ^b  

^a Honiton Group Practice   (United Kingdom)

^b Palliative Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^c Barnfield Hill Surgery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Noncancer illness; Palliative care; Predicting death; Primary care

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DYING; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; SUDDEN DEATH; SYMPTOM; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 0036441518     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216302pm596oa     Document Type: Article

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