Red blood cell distribution width is a predictor of readmission in cardiac patients

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 293-299

  Ephrem, Georges ^a  

^a Northwell Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; BLOOD; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; AREA UNDER CURVE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT READMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84877780639     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.22116     Document Type: Article

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