Journal article
Clinical Features, Treatment Practices, and Hospital and Long‐Term Outcomes of Older Patients Hospitalized with Decompensated Heart Failure: The Worcester Heart Failure Study
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To examine age-specific differences in clinical presentation, receipt of therapeutic practices and lifestyle recommendations, and hospital and long-term survival in patients hospitalized for acute heart failure HF.
DESIGN: Population-based study.
Authors
Saczynski JS; Darling CE; Spencer FA; Lessard D; Gore JM; Goldberg RJ
Journal
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Vol. 57, No. 9, pp. 1587–1594
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
9 2009
DOI
10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02407.x
ISSN
0002-8614