Quality of life with defibrillator therapy or amiodarone in heart failure

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 359, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 999-1008

  Mark, Daniel B ^a   Anstrom, Kevin J ^a   Sun, Jie L ^a   Clapp Channing, Nancy E ^a   Tsiatis, Anastasios A ^b   Davidson Ray, Linda ^a   Lee, Kerry L ^a   Bardy, Gust H ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; PLACEBO;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SHORT FORM 36; WELLBEING;

EID: 50949110963     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0706719     Document Type: Article

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