Are registry hospitals different? A comparison of patients admitted to hospitals of a commercial heart failure registry with those from national and community cohorts

American Heart Journal

Volumn 152, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 935-939

  Heidenreich, Paul A ^a,b,c   Fonarow, Gregg C ^a,b,c  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BYPASS SURGERY; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART PACING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC CARE FACILITIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750337064     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2006.06.037     Document Type: Article

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