Overview of acutely decompensated congestive heart failure (ADHF): A report from the ADHERE Registry

Heart Failure Reviews

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 179-185

  Fonarow, Gregg C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute decompensated heart failure; Hospitalization; Mortality; Quality of care; Registry

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BUMETANIDE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; MILRINONE; NESIRITIDE; TORASEMIDE;

COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REGISTER; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGISTRIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 17144428563     PISSN: 13824147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10741-005-6127-6     Document Type: Review

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