Rate and predictors of early readmission among Thai patients with heart failure

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 94, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 782-788

  Jenghua, Kittipak ^a   Jedsadayanmata, Arom ^a  

^a NARESUAN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Quality indicators; Quality of care; Readmission; Rehospitalization

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; POTASSIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPONATREMIA; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OSMOLALITY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STROKE; THALASSEMIA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THAILAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960055306     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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