Cardiac disease in the elderly : interventions, ethics, economics /

Today coronary heart disease and end stage heart failure represent the leading causes of hospitalization and death in civilized countries. Annual inpatient and outpatient expenditure on new diseases in the Western world, combined with an increasing life expectancy, confront medicine and the financin...

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Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Preiss, M. (Michael)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	Introd. in English and German; articles in English with abstracts in German.
Published:	Darmstadt : Steinkopff, [2001]
Subjects:	Heart > Diseases. Geriatric cardiology. Older people > Diseases. Heart Diseases > therapy. Aged. Health Care Rationing > economics. Thoracic Surgical Procedures. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book