Thirty-day outcomes in Medicare patients with heart failure at heart transplant centers

Circulation: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 244-252

  Hummel, Scott L ^a   Pauli, Natalie P ^b   Krumholz, Harlan M ^c,d   Wang, Yun ^d   Chen, Jersey ^c   Normand, Sharon Lise T ^e,f   Nallamothu, Brahmajee K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Hospitals; Medicare; Morbidity; Mortality; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANT CENTER; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEACHING HOSPITAL; AGED; ALGORITHM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; RISK; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT READMISSION; RISK; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951931552     PISSN: 19413289     EISSN: 19413297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.109.884098     Document Type: Article

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