Psychosocial status predicts mortality in patients with life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 361-365

  Steinberg, Jonathan S ^a   Joshi, Sandeep ^a   Schron, Eleanor B ^b   Powell, Judy ^c   Hallstrom, Alfred ^c   McBurnie, MaryAnn ^d  

^a Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR HEALTH RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Antiarrhythmic Versus Implantable Defibrillators trial; Antiarrhythmics; Cardiac arrest; Defibrillation; Quality of life; Tachyarrhythmias

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FERRANS AND POWERS QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 39649122912     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.11.010     Document Type: Article

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