Heart failure: Part I. First hospitalization and post-hospital care.

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Published in West J Med on May 01, 1999

Authors

M S Wilkes1, H Middlekauff, J R Hoffman

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Cardiology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA. mwilkes@ucla.edu

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