Confounded by hospitalization: Risk stratification and admission decisions in emergency department patients with acute heart failure

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-107

  Collins, Sean ^a   Hiestand, Brian ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; TROPONIN;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALIBRATION; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NOTE; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

CAUSE OF DEATH; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT DISCHARGE;

EID: 84872329276     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12045     Document Type: Note

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