Hospital readmissions and death from heart failure - Rates still alarming;Re-hospitalizações e morte por insuficiência cardíaca - Índices ainda alarmantes

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Barretto, Antonio Carlos Pereira ^a,b   Del Carlo, Carlos Henrique ^a   Cardoso, Juliano Novaes ^a   Morgado, Paulo Cesar ^a   Munhoz, Robson Tadeu ^a   Eid, Marcelo Ochiai ^a   Oliveira Jr , Mucio Tavares ^a   Scipioni, Airton Roberto ^a   Ramires, Jose Antonio Franchini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Heart failure, congestive; Hospitalization; Mortality; Natural history of diseases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HEART DEATH; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CODING; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BRAZIL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849105951     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0066-782X2008001700009     Document Type: Article

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