Lack of improvement in outpatient management of congestive heart failure in the United States

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1399-1400

  Banerjee, Dipanjan ^a,b   Stafford, Randall S ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; ANGIOTENSIN ANTAGONIST; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR;

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ANGIOTENSIN II TYPE 1 RECEPTOR BLOCKERS; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; DIGOXIN; DIURETICS; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; OUTPATIENTS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955447050     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.270     Document Type: Letter

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