Predictors of 30-day readmission in patients hospitalized with decompensated heart failure

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 542-547

  Hernandez, Marlow B ^a   Schwartz, Randall S ^a   Asher, Craig R ^a   Navas, Elsy V ^a   Totfalusi, Victor ^a   Buitrago, Ivan ^a   Lahoti, Ankush ^a   Novaro, Gian M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; SODIUM;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT READMISSION; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883858118     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.22180     Document Type: Article

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