Predictors of length of hospital stay after acute myocardial infarction in Japan

Circulation Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 809-815

  Kinjo, Kunihiro ^a   Sato, Hiroshi ^a   Nakatani, Daisaku ^a   Mizuno, Hiroya ^a   Shimizu, Masahiko ^a   Hishida, Eiji ^a   Ezumi, Akira ^b   Hoshida, Shiro ^c   Koretsune, Yukihiro ^d   Hori, Masatsugu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Osaka Rlwy Hosp W Japan Rlwy Co   (Japan)

^c Yao Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

^d OSAKA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Hospital stay; Japan

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT; NITRATE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BLEEDING; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART REINFARCTION; HEART RUPTURE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; OCCUPATION; PREDICTION; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 4544266686     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.68.809     Document Type: Article

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