Chronic heart failure: Optimising care in general practice

Australian Family Physician

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 547-553

  Piterman, Leon ^a   Zimmet, Hendrik ^a   Krum, Henry ^a   Tonkin, Andrew ^a   Yallop, Julie ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT;

AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DIURETICS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FAMILY PRACTICE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 25144462635     PISSN: 03008495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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