Rising Mortality in Patients With Heart Failure in the United States: Facts Versus Fiction

JACC: Heart Failure

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 610-612

  Khera, Rohan ^a   Dharmarajan, Kumar ^b,c   Krumholz, Harlan M ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Clover Health   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiovascular outcomes; health policy; readmission penalties

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE BURDEN; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY RATE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MORTALITY;

HEALTH POLICY; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; PATIENT READMISSION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85047790987     PISSN: 22131779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchf.2018.02.011     Document Type: Review

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