Physician vs patient assessment of dyspnea during acute decompensated heart failure

Congestive Heart Failure

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 60-64

  Smithline, Howard A ^a   Caglar, Selin ^a   Blank, Fidela S J ^a  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DECOMPENSATED HEART FAILURE; ACUTE HEART FAILURE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 77951704369     PISSN: 15275299     EISSN: 17517133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7133.2009.00127.x     Document Type: Article

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