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The mortality risk of deferring optimal medical therapy in heart failure: a systematic comparison against norms for surgical consent and patient information leaflets

AIMS: The prescription of optimal medical therapy for heart failure is often delayed despite compelling evidence of a reduction in mortality. We calculated the absolute risk resulting from delayed prescription of therapy. For comparison, we established the threshold applied by clinicians when discus...

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Autores principales: Zaman, Sameer, Zaman, Saman S., Scholtes, Timothy, Shun‐Shin, Matthew J., Plymen, Carla M., Francis, Darrel P., Cole, Graham D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5726382/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28597606
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.838