Appropriate Use of Digoxin in Treating Older Nursing Home Patients With Heart Failure

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 604-606

  Aronow, Wilbert S ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; PLACEBO; PROPAFENONE; PROPANTHELINE BROMIDE; QUINIDINE; SPIRONOLACTONE; TETRACYCLINE; TRIAMTERENE; VERAPAMIL;

AGED; AGING; DIGOXIN BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG CROSS REACTIVITY; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG USE; EDITORIAL; FATALITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE DRUG DOSE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 33751077043     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2006.08.009     Document Type: Editorial

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