Trends in palliative care use in veterans with severe heart failure using a large national cohort

JAMA Cardiology

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 617-619

  Mandawat, Anant ^a   Heidenreich, Paul A ^b,c   Mandawat, Aditya ^a   Bhatt, Deepak L ^d,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CREATININE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGE; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RATE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SEX; VETERAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; VETERANS;

EID: 85026869918     PISSN: 23806583     EISSN: 23806591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamacardio.2016.1687     Document Type: Letter

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