Prognostic Impact of Physician Specialty on the Prognosis of Outpatients With Heart Failure: Propensity Matched Analysis of the REDINSCOR and RICA Registries;Impacto pronóstico de la especialidad en el paciente ambulatorio con insuficiencia cardiaca: un análisis emparejado de los registros REDINSCOR y RICA

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 347-354

  Álvarez García, Jesús ^a   Salamanca Bautista, Prado ^b   Ferrero Gregori, Andreu ^a   Montero Pérez Barquero, Manuel ^c   Puig, Teresa ^a   Aramburu Bodas, Óscar ^b   Vázquez, Rafael ^d   Formiga, Francesc ^e   Delgado, Juan ^f   Arias Jiménez, José Luis ^b   Vives Borrás, Miquel ^a   Cerqueiro González, J Manuel ^g   Manzano, Luis ^h   Cinca, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN MACARENA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DEL MAR   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LUCUS AUGUSTI   (Spain)

^h HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Heart failure; Prognosis; Propensity score; Registry

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE REGISTRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNIST; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OUTPATIENT; PROGNOSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; SEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; REGISTER; SPAIN; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; CARDIOLOGY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; REGISTRIES; SPAIN;

EID: 85006100821     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: 15792242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.recesp.2016.09.021     Document Type: Article

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