Readmissions after Hospitalization for Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, or Pneumonia among Young and Middle-Aged Adults: A Retrospective Observational Cohort Study

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Ranasinghe, Isuru ^a   Wang, Yongfei ^a   Dharmarajan, Kumar ^a,b   Hsieh, Angela F ^a   Bernheim, Susannah M ^a   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,b,c  

^a YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT READMISSION; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907960405     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001737     Document Type: Article

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