Six-month outcomes in a multinational registry of patients hospitalized with an acute coronary syndrome (The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events [GRACE])

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 288-293

  Goldberg, Robert J ^a   Currie, Kristen ^b   White, Kami ^b   Brieger, David ^b   Steg, Phillippe Gabriel ^b   Goodman, Shaun G ^b   Dabbous, Omar ^b   Fox, Keith A A ^b   Gore, Joel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NORTH AMERICA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REGISTER; SAMPLING; SOUTH AMERICA; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 0842346319     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2003.10.006     Document Type: Article

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