Palliative care is an important aspect of heart failure management [4]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 117-118

  Athavale, Nandkishor V ^a  

^a ROTHERHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; OPIATE;

AGED; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DYSPNEA; ELDERLY CARE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; LUNG EDEMA; MORTALITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL; TRAINING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINAL CARE; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 0037273169     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/32.1.117     Document Type: Letter

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