Nursing Homes and the Care of Heart Failure Residents: What Have We Learned?

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 544-

  Forman, Daniel E ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 80053197807     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2010.07.015     Document Type: Editorial

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