Attitudes of older adults with serious competing health risks toward their implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: a pilot study

BACKGROUND: In elderly heart failure patients, the survival benefit of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) may be attenuated due to competing health risks, and the risk of adverse outcomes magnified. Our objective was to examine older adults’ attitudes towards ICD implantation in the cont...

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Autores principales: Green, Ariel R., Boyd, Cynthia M., Rickard, John, Gomon, Robert, Leff, Bruce
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4690308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26700296
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-015-0173-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4690308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26700296
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-015-0173-2

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