Tackling Early Heart Failure Deaths and Readmissions by Estimating Congestion

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 894-895

  Voors, Adriaan A ^a   ter Maaten, Jozine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

acute heart failure; congestion; rehospitalization

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; INOTROPIC AGENT;

BODY WEIGHT; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEHYDRATION; EDITORIAL; ESTIMATED PLASMA VOLUME; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOCONCENTRATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; PLASMA VOLUME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; PATIENT READMISSION;

EID: 85001843000     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2015.06.013     Document Type: Editorial

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