Symptom burden among patients who were hospitalized for heart failure

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1713-1715

  Khan, Rabeea F ^a   Feder, Shelli ^b   Goldstein, Nathan E ^c,d   Chaudhry, Sarwat I ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FOLLOW UP; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; COST OF ILLNESS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; PROCEDURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COST OF ILLNESS; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; PATIENT READMISSION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84943543479     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.3871     Document Type: Letter

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