Impact of baseline heart failure burden on post-implantable cardioverter-defibrillator mortality among medicare beneficiaries

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 61, Issue 21, 2013, Pages 2142-2150

  Chen, Chih Ying ^a,b   Stevenson, Lynne Warner ^a,b   Stewart, Garrick C ^a,b   Seeger, John D ^a,b   Williams, Lauren ^a   Jalbert, Jessica J ^a,b   Setoguchi, Soko ^a,b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

heart failure; implantable cardioverter defibrillator; mortality; primary prevention

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SUDDEN DEATH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST OF ILLNESS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84877989024     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.02.043     Document Type: Article

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