Living and dying with heart failure: Its time to talk

European Heart Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 689-691

  Dunlay, Shannon M ^a   Roger, Véronique L ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIVING WILL; LONGEVITY; LUNG ARTERY CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SYMPTOM; TERMINAL CARE;

HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; PATIENT PREFERENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84858434504     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehr411     Document Type: Review

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