Hospitalizations in Patients With Heart Failure: Who and Why

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 54, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 1703-1705

  Setoguchi, Soko ^a   Stevenson, Lynne Warner ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

community; epidemiology; heart failure; hospitalization; risk factors

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349978544     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.08.015     Document Type: Editorial

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