Teaching Heart Failure Treatment Guidelines and Assessing Heart Failure Therapy
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Chronic heart failure guidelines.
I read the editorial of M. R. Cowie with great interest. The figures on the prognosis of heart failure were admirably clear. Nobody can deny the grim prognosis of heart failure patients, as reported by Mosterd and colleagues in the article to which the editorial refers. Cowie identifies patients who are likely to do especially badly: the very old, those with impaired renal function, diabetes an...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0002-9459,1553-6467
DOI: 10.5688/aj7406103