FRAIL-HF, a study to evaluate the clinical complexity of heart failure in nondependent older patients: Rationale, methods and baseline characteristics

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 725-732

  Vidán, Aría T ^a   Sánchez, Elísabet ^a   Fernández Avilés, Francisco ^a   Serra Rexach, José A ^a   Ortiz, Javier ^a   Bueno, Héctor ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH LITERACY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CARE; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 84919651864     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.22345     Document Type: Article

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