Hypertensive urgency-is this a useful diagnosis?

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 988-989

  Heath, Iona ^a  

^a ROYAL COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPERTENSIVE URGENCY; MALIGNANT HYPERTENSION; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; EMERGENCY;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; EMERGENCIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 84978950616     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.1498     Document Type: Note

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