Heart Failure Prognosis: Comorbidities Matter

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 447-452

  Kheirbek, Raya E ^a,b   Alemi, Farrokh ^a,d   Fletcher, Ross ^a,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COMORBIDITY; ELIXHAUSER COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; GOVERNMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84930003576     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2014.0365     Document Type: Article

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