Etiology of syncope in patients hospitalized with syncope and predictors of mortality and rehospitalization for syncope at 27-month follow-up

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 35-38

  Sule, Sachin ^a   Palaniswamy, Chandrasekar ^a   Aronow, Wilbert S ^a   Ahn, Chul ^b   Peterson, Stephen J ^a   Adapa, Sreedhar ^a   Mudambi, Lakshmi ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SMOKING; SYNCOPE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT READMISSION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SYNCOPE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79251511533     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20872     Document Type: Article

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