Validity of Charlson Comorbidity Index in patients hospitalised with acute coronary syndrome. Insights from the nationwide AMIS Plus registry 2002-2012

Heart

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 288-294

  Radovanovic, Dragana ^a   Seifert, Burkhardt ^a   Urban, Philip ^b   Eberli, Franz R ^c   Rickli, Hans ^c   Bertel, Osmund ^d   Puhan, Milo A ^a   Erne, Paul ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LA TOUR HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c Division of Cardiology   (Switzerland)

^d KLINIK IM PARK   (Switzerland)

^e Klinik im Park ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL RATE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84893773944     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304588     Document Type: Article

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