Syncope: Outcomes and Conditions Associated with Hospitalization

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 699-706.e6

  Joy, Parijat Saurav ^a   Kumar, Gagan ^b   Olshansky, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b Northeast Georgia Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

Mortality survival; Quality and outcomes; Resource utilization; Syncope

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOVERSION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DEHYDRATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; IMPLANTATION; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY RATE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL COST; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SYNCOPE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SYNCOPE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85014773882     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2016.12.030     Document Type: Article

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