A randomized intervention to improve heart failure outcomes in community-based home health care

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-23

  Feldman, Penny H ^a   Peng, Timothy R ^a   Murtaugh, Christopher M ^a   Putnam, Margaret E ^a   Donelson, Sarah M ^b   McCann, Mary Ellen ^a  

^a VISITING NURSE SERVICE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Outcomes Measurement and Statistics   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical practice guideline; Home care services; Outcome assessment (health care)

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STANDARD;

AGED; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 2942650942     PISSN: 01621424     EISSN: 15450856     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J027v23n01_01     Document Type: Article

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