Multiple Chronic Conditions and Heart Failure*. Overlooking the Obvious?

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 551-553

  Shaffer, Jonathan A ^a   Maurer, Mathew S ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Geriatric cardiology; Multimorbidity; Multiple chronic conditions; Patient centered care

Indexed keywords

AGING; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; EDITORIAL; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE CHRONIC CONDITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; MALE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84943228853     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2015.04.005     Document Type: Editorial

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