Managing chronic heart failure: Clinical characteristics and resources utilization in patients managed by the general practitioner. A pilot study in the Udine province (Italy);La gestione dello scompenso cardiaco cronico: Caratteristche cliniche ed assorbimento di risorse dei pazienti seguiti dal Medico di Medicina Generale. Studio pilota sul territorio della provincia di Udine (Italia)

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 95-100

  Albanese, Maria Cecilia ^a   Gubiani, M ^b   Cuzzato, A L ^b   Oppenheim, R ^b   Casini, M ^b   Miani, D ^a   Rozbowszky, P ^c   Mauro, K ^b   Gregori, D ^c   Trentin, M ^c   Gremese, E ^c   Fioretti, P M ^d  

^a SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b ASS 4 Medio Friuli   (Italy)

^c IRCAB Foundation   (Italy)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Clinical management; General practitioners; Heart failure; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; ANGIOTENSIN II ANTAGONIST; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM ANTAGONIST; CARVEDILOL; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ENALAPRIL; FOSINOPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LISINOPRIL; METOPROLOL; NEBIVOLOL; NITRATE; QUINAPRIL; RAMIPRIL; TICLOPIDINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY CARE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PILOT STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; WORKLOAD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0036718988     PISSN: 11220643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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