Frailty in advanced heart failure: a systematic review

Heart Failure Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 553-560

  Jha, Sunita R ^a,c   Ha, Hakeem S K ^b   Hickman, Louise D ^a   Hannu, Malin ^c   Davidson, Patricia M ^a,d   Macdonald, Peter S ^c,e   Newton, Phillip J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^e VICTOR CHANG CARDIAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Advanced heart failure; Frail elderly; Review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMORBIDITY; FALLING; FRAILTY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); AGED; DISEASE COURSE; FRAIL ELDERLY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84938745349     PISSN: 13824147     EISSN: 15737322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10741-015-9493-8     Document Type: Article

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