Temporal Trends and Factors Associated With Cardiac Rehabilitation Referral Among Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 917-926

  Golwala, Harsh ^a   Pandey, Ambarish ^b   Ju, Christine ^c   Butler, Javed ^d   Yancy, Clyde ^e   Bhatt, Deepak L ^f   Hernandez, Adrian F ^c   Fonarow, Gregg C ^g  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

comorbidities; preserved ejection fraction; reduced ejection fraction; referral patterns

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART REHABILITATION; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REGISTRIES;

EID: 84939548751     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.06.1089     Document Type: Article

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