Geriatric assessment to improve risk stratification in older patients undergoing coronary revascularization

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 491-492

  Chaudhry, Sarwat I ^a   Gill, Thomas M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMORBIDITY; EDITORIAL; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 80054774306     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.111.962647     Document Type: Editorial

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