Clinical features, treatment practices, and hospital and long-term outcomes of older patients hospitalized with decompensated heart failure: The Worcester heart failure study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1587-1594

  Saczynski, Jane S ^a,b   Darling, Chad E ^b   Spencer, Frederick A ^c   Lessard, Darleen ^b   Gore, Joel M ^b   Goldberg, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elderly; Epidemiology; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART REHABILITATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOW FAT DIET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SMOKING CESSATION; SODIUM RESTRICTION; SURVIVAL TIME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; COMORBIDITY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 69549090028     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02407.x     Document Type: Article

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