Mortality risk and patterns of practice in 4606 acute care patients with congestive heart failure. The relative importance of age, sex, and medical therapy. Clinical Quality Improvement Network Investigators.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To define contemporary patterns of risk and management among patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). METHODS: Cross-sectional records audit of 4606 hospitalized patients with CHF in 1992 and 1993.

Journal

JAMA Internal Medicine, Vol. 156, No. 15, pp. 1669–1673

Publisher

American Medical Association (AMA)

Publication Date

August 12, 1996

DOI

10.1001/archinte.156.15.1669

ISSN

2168-6106

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Koon Teo

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Health Sciences

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