Predictors and Outcomes of Infection-Related Hospital Admissions of Heart Failure Patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Alon, Danny ^a   Stein, Gideon Y ^a   Korenfeld, Roman ^a   Fuchs, Shmuel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84883001274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072476     Document Type: Article

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