Confirmation of a heart failure epidemic: Findings from the Resource Utilization Among Congestive Heart Failure (REACH) study

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 60-69

  McCullough, Peter A ^a   Philbin, Edward F ^b   Spertus, John A ^c   Kaatz, Scott ^d   Sandberg, Keisha R ^e   Weaver, W Douglas ^e  

^a TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HENRY FORD HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0037005813     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(01)01700-4     Document Type: Article

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