Racial Differences in Heart Failure Outcomes. Evidence From the Tele-HF Trial (Telemonitoring to Improve Heart Failure Outcomes).

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 531-538

  Qian, Feng ^a   Parzynski, Craig S ^b   Chaudhry, Sarwat I ^b   Hannan, Edward L ^a   Shaw, Benjamin A ^a   Spertus, John A ^c   Krumholz, Harlan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Outcome; Patient reported health status; Racial difference

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE ASSESSMENT; CAUCASIAN; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; KANSAS CITY CARDIOMYOPATHY QUESTIONNAIRE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELEMONITORING; AGED; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT READMISSION;

EID: 84943277553     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2015.03.005     Document Type: Article

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