Heart failure hospitalisations and deaths in New Zealand: Patterns by deprivation and ethnicity

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 1208, 2005, Pages

  Riddell, Tania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAORI; MEDICAL CARE; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; AGE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 17144420163     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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