Improving postdischarge outcomes in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure syndromes

JAMA

Volumn 305, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 2456-2457

  Gheorghiade, Mihai ^a   Peterson, Eric D ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INSULIN; MINERALOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST; NATRIURETIC FACTOR; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; OXYGEN DERIVATIVE; SPIRONOLACTONE; STEROID; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG CONGESTION; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; VEIN DILATATION;

EID: 79958712233     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.836     Document Type: Note

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