Nurse-led titration of β-adrenoreceptor blocking agents in chronic heart failure patients in the community

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 224-230

  Driscoll, Andrea ^a   Krum, Henry ^a   Wolfe, Rory ^a   Tonkin, Andrew ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

beta adrenoreceptor blocking agents; Heart failure; heart failure programs; medication titration

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BISOPROLOL; CARVEDILOL; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 79952190504     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2010.10.010     Document Type: Article

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