Characteristics of Hospitalized Patients with Atrial Fibrillation in Taiwan: A Nationwide Observation

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Lee, Cheng Han ^a   Liu, Ping Yen ^a   Tsai, Liang Miin ^a   Tsai, Wei Chuan ^a   Ho, Ming Tsung ^b   Chen, Jyh Hong ^a   Lin, Li Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HWA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Epidemiology; In hospital mortality; Incidence

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TAIWAN; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; COMORBIDITY; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; TAIWAN;

EID: 34548191944     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2006.10.014     Document Type: Article

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