Advance directives of patients with high-risk or inoperable aortic stenosis

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1516-1518

  Nkomo, Vuyisile T ^a   Suri, Rakesh M ^a   Pislaru, Sorin V ^a   Greason, Kevin L ^a   Mathew, Verghese ^a   Rihal, Charanjit S ^a   Mueller, Paul S ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LETTER; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LIVING WILL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; SURGICAL RISK; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; DECISION MAKING; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907014640     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.3453     Document Type: Letter

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