Predictors of in-hospital mortality present at admission among patients hospitalised because of decompensated heart failure

Cardiology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 73-78

  Formiga, Francesc ^a   Chivite, David ^a   Manito, Nicolas ^a   Casas, Susana ^a   Riera, Antoni ^a   Pujol, Ramon ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Hospital admission; In hospital mortality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CREATININE; EDEMA; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; SPAIN;

EID: 34548056734     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000095885     Document Type: Article

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