Connecting the circle from home to heart-failure disease management

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 363, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 2364-2367

  Desai, Akshay S ^a   Stevenson, Lynne Warner ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TELEMONITORING;

EID: 78649812846     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1011769     Document Type: Editorial

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