Mortality benefit of a comprehensive heart failure disease management program in indigent patients

American Heart Journal

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 478-483

  Hebert, Kathy A ^a,f   Horswell, Ronald L ^b   Dy, Sydney ^c   Key Jr , Ira J ^b   Butler, Michael K ^b   Cerise, Frederick P ^d   Arcement, Lee M ^e  

^a Leonard J Chabert Medical Center   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^e OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CARVEDILOL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDIGENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; LOUISIANA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POVERTY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 31344437039     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2005.04.022     Document Type: Article

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