Why it pays for hospitals to initiate a heart failure disease management program

Disease Management and Health Outcomes

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 155-173

  Velez, Mauricio ^a   Westerfeldt, Bethany ^a   Rahko, Peter S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease management programmes; Heart failure, treatment; Hospitalisation

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NURSE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SURGEON; SURVIVAL; TEAM BUILDING; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

EID: 44349096268     PISSN: 11738790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00115677-200816030-00003     Document Type: Review

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