Heart Failure Symptom Clusters and Functional Status
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Symptom clusters of heart failure.
Patients with heart failure (HF) report multiple symptoms. Change in symptoms is an indicator of HF decompensation. Patients have difficulty differentiating HF symptoms from comorbid illness or aging. The study purpose was to identify the number, type, and combination of symptoms in hospitalized HF patients and test relationships with comorbid illness and age. A secondary analysis from a HF reg...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1053-2498
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2014.01.334