Comparison of length of stay, 30-day mortality, and 30-day readmission rates in medicare patients with heart failure and with reduced versus preserved ejection fraction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 79-85

  Loop, Matthew Shane ^a   Van Dyke, Melissa K ^d   Chen, Ligong ^a   Brown, Todd M ^b   Durant, Raegan W ^c   Safford, Monika M ^e   Levitan, Emily B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d AMGEN INC   (United States)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; LOOP DIURETIC AGENT;

AGED; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE WITH REDUCED EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLICATION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84969507048     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: 18791913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2016.04.015     Document Type: Conference Paper

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