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Preventable causative factors leading to hospital admission with decompensated heart failure
Heart · 1998 · Vol. 80(5) · pp. 437–441
Andreas Michalsen✉(Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité)G König(Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité)W Thimme(Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité)
Abstract
Many hospital admissions for decompensation of chronic heart failure in patients at a district hospital in Berlin are preventable. Measures are necessary to improve this situation and evaluation of programmes that include patient education, patient follow up, and physician training is needed.
Heart Failure Treatment and ManagementEmergency and Acute Care StudiesMedicineDecompensationHeart failureCardiac decompensationEmergency medicineAcute decompensated heart failureHospital admissionIntensive care medicineInternal medicine
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AgedAged, 80 and overCoronary DiseaseFemaleGermanyHeart FailureHospitals, CommunityHospitals, TeachingHumansHypertensionMaleMiddle AgedPatient AdmissionProspective StudiesChi-Square Distribution
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