Physician specialty and mortality among elderly patients hospitalized with heart failure

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1120-1125

  Foody, JoAnne Micale ^a,b,c,d   Rathore, Saif S ^a   Wang, Yongfei ^a   Herrin, Jeph ^e   Masoudi, Frederick A ^c,f,g   Havranek, Edward P ^c,f,g   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,b,c,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Colorado Foundation for Medical Care ^*  (United States)

^d QUALIDIGM   (United States)

^e Flying Buttress Associates   (United States)

^f DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Heart failure; Mortality; Specialty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CODING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 25444511800     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2005.01.075     Document Type: Article

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