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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Published in:BMC Geriatr
Main Authors: Green, Ariel R., Boyd, Cynthia M., Rickard, John, Gomon, Robert, Leff, Bruce
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4690308/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26700296
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-015-0173-2
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