Crisis awaiting heart transplantation sinking the lifeboat

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1406-1409

  Stevenson, Lynne Warner ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPARENT LIFE THREATENING EVENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEART GRAFT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; DONOR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION;

HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; TISSUE DONORS; TRIAGE; UNITED STATES; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84939832210     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.2203     Document Type: Article

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