Association between length of stay, frequency of in-hospital death, and causes of death in Japanese patients with acute heart failure syndromes

Int J Cardiol. 2013 Sep 20;168(1):554-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.01.187. Epub 2013 Feb 21.

Authors

Katsuya Kajimoto¹, Naoki Sato, Takehiko Keida, Masayuki Mizuno, Yasushi Sakata, Kuniya Asai, Teruo Takano; investigators of the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Syndromes (ATTEND) registry

Affiliation

¹ Division of Cardiology, Sensoji Hospital, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address: kkajimoto@gmail.com.

PMID: 23434007
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.01.187

No abstract available

Keywords: Acute heart failure syndromes; In-hospital mortality; Length of stay; Sudden death.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Asian People / ethnology*
Cause of Death / trends
Cohort Studies
Female
Heart Failure / diagnosis
Heart Failure / ethnology*
Heart Failure / therapy*
Hospital Mortality / ethnology*
Hospital Mortality / trends*
Humans
Length of Stay / trends*
Male
Middle Aged
Registries
Retrospective Studies
Syndrome