Impact of home versus clinic-based management of chronic heart failure: The WHICH? (Which heart failure intervention is most cost-effective & consumer friendly in reducing hospital care) multicenter, randomized trial

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 60, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1239-1248

  Stewart, Simon ^a   Carrington, Melinda J ^a   Marwick, Thomas H ^b   Davidson, Patricia M ^c   MacDonald, Peter ^d   Horowitz, John D ^e   Krum, Henry ^f   Newton, Phillip J ^c   Reid, Christopher ^f   Chan, Yih Kai ^a   Scuffham, Paul A ^g  

^a BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

disease management; health economics; heart failure

Indexed keywords

PERINDOPRIL;

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; AUSTRALIA; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84866669391     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.06.025     Document Type: Article

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