The evolving challenge of chronic heart failure management: A call for a new curriculum for training heart failure specialists

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1354-1357

  Adamson, Philip B ^a,c   Abraham, William T ^b   Love, Charles ^b   Reynolds, Dwight ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Cardiovascular Disease   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; TRAINING; ULTRAFILTRATION;

EID: 4644276352     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2004.04.061     Document Type: Review

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