Strategies to reduce 30-Day readmissions in older patients hospitalized with heart failure and acute myocardial infarction

Current Geriatrics Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 306-315

  Dharmarajan, Kumar ^a,b   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Care transitions; Elderly; Heart failure; Post hospital syndrome; Readmission; Rehospitalization

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CONTROL STRATEGY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GOLD STANDARD; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PREDICTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC);

EID: 84919949889     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21967865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13670-014-0103-8     Document Type: Article

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