A description of patients who died while they were waiting for heart catheterization or surgery;En karakteristik af mortaliteten blandt patienter der ventede på koronararteriografisk undersøgelse eller hjerteoperation

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 158, Issue 26, 1996, Pages 3768-3772

  Mogensen, Jens ^a   Bille, Søren ^a   Toftegaard Nielsen, Torsten ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SUDDEN DEATH; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DENMARK; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 3342930613     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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