Psychiatric comorbidity and mortality among veterans hospitalized for congestive heart failure

Military Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 732-741

  Banta, Jim E ^a   Andersen, Ronald M ^b   Young, Alexander S ^c   Kominski, Gerald ^b   Cunningham, William E ^b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; VETERANS;

EID: 77957989357     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-10-00002     Document Type: Article

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