Patients with acute heart failure in the emergency department: Do they all need to be admitted?

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 900-903

  Pang, Peter S ^a   Jesse, Robert ^b   Collins, Sean P ^c   Maisel, Alan ^d  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency department; Heart failure; natriuretic peptides; readmission

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CREATININE; NITROGEN; UREA;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; EMERGENCY WARD; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84870540437     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2012.10.014     Document Type: Article

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