Quality of care and hospital readmission in congestive heart failure: an explicit review process.

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Published in J Card Fail on December 01, 2001

Authors

C A Polanczyk1, C Newton, G W Dec, T G Di Salvo

Author Affiliations

1: Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Unit, Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

Aquapheresis Efficacy in Outpatients With Decompensated Heart Failure | NCT04572867

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