Heart Failure
Subtitle: Providing Optimal Care (American Heart Association Monograph)
Contributors: Mariell L. Jessup (Editor); Kathleen M. McCauley (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: September 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781405103756
Subjects: Cardiovascular medicine; Medical / Nursing; Heart failure; Medical; prevention & control; Cardiology; Medical / Cardiology; Heart Failure, Congestive; Internal Medicine; therapy
First sentence: Heart failure is a disease of epidemic proportions in the U.S., but only recently have health-care organizations, governmental agencies, and the general public begun to recognize this disease as a major cause of human suffering and a contributor to increased health-care cost.