Home health care nursing visit intensity and heart failure patient outcomes

Home Health Care Management and Practice

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 412-420

  Riggs, Jennifer S ^a   Madigan, Elizabeth A ^b   Fortinsky, Richard H ^c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

heart failure; home health care; nursing intensity; patient outcomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655169412     PISSN: 10848223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084822311405456     Document Type: Article

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