Journal article
Use of Disease-Modifying Therapies in Patients Hospitalized with Heart Failure: A Population-Based Perspective
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Little data are available about the hospital management of patients with decompensated heart failure (HF) with individual and combination medical therapies, particularly from the more generalizable perspective of a population-based investigation. The purpose of our study was to describe the use of different cardiac medications in 2463 patients with new-onset HF who were discharged from all greater Worcester, Massachusetts, hospitals …
Authors
Goldberg RJ; Spencer FA; Farmer C; Lessard D; Pezzella SM; Meyer TE
Journal
The American Journal of Medicine, Vol. 120, No. 1, pp. 98.e1–98.e8
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
1 2007
DOI
10.1016/j.amjmed.2006.05.051
ISSN
0002-9343