Cluster analysis of elderly cardiac patients' prehospital symptomatology

Nursing Research

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-23

  Lindgren, Teri G ^a   Fukuoka, Yoshimi ^a   Rankin, Sally H ^a   Cooper, Bruce A ^a   Carroll, Diane ^b   Munn, Yvonne L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac symptoms; Cluster analysis; Elderly

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 37349100883     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NNR.0000280654.50642.1a     Document Type: Article

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