Patient-Centered Cardiac Care for the Elderly: TIME for Reflection

JAMA

Volumn 289, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1157-1158

  Peterson, Eric D ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANGIOPLASTY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DECISION MAKING; EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVASCULARIZATION; ANGINA PECTORIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; NOTE; PROGNOSIS;

CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DECISION MAKING; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 0037420285     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.289.9.1157     Document Type: Editorial

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