Association between physician specialty and volumes of treated patients and mortality among patients hospitalized for newly diagnosed heart failure

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-44

  Cujec, Bibiana ^a   Quan, Hude ^b   Jin, Yan ^c   Johnson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Research and Evidence   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health service utilization; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; CARDIOLOGY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 11444266550     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2004.08.013     Document Type: Article

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