Readmission after hospitalization for congestive heart failure among medicare beneficiaries

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 99-104

  Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,b,d   Parent, Eugene M ^a   Tu, Nora ^b   Vaccarino, Viola ^a,b   Wang, Yun ^b   Radford, Martha J ^b,c   Hennen, John ^b  

^a Yale New Haven Ctr Outcomes Res/E   (United States)

^b Connecticut Peer Review Organization ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE;

EID: 0031031212     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.157.1.99     Document Type: Article

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