Multidisciplinary congestive heart failure clinic for older women: A randomized, controlled trial [19]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 874-875

  Azad, Nahid A ^a,b,c   Molnar, Frank J ^b,c,d   Byszewski, Anna M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d BRUYÈRE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CARDIOLOGIST; CLINICAL PATHWAY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; EMOTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SHORT FORM 36; CONVALESCENCE; FRAIL ELDERLY; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744999414     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00726.x     Document Type: Letter

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