Open access to an outpatient intravenous diuresis program in a systolic heart failure disease management program

Congestive Heart Failure

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 309-313

  Hebert, Kathy ^a   Dias, Andre ^a   Franco, Emiliana ^a   Tamariz, Leonardo ^a   Steen, Dylan ^a   Arcement, Lee M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Leonard J Chabert Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DIURETIC PROGRAM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC HEART FAILURE; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT GAIN;

AMBULATORY CARE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DIURETICS; FEMALE; FLORIDA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, SYSTOLIC; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PILOT PROJECTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 81955168095     PISSN: 15275299     EISSN: 17517133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7133.2011.00224.x     Document Type: Article

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