Rationale, design and conduct of a randomised controlled trial evaluating a primary care-based complex intervention to improve the quality of life of heart failure patients: HICMan (Heidelberg Integrated Case Management).

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Published in BMC Cardiovasc Disord on August 23, 2007

Authors

Frank Peters-Klimm1, Thomas Müller-Tasch, Dieter Schellberg, Jochen Gensichen, Christiane Muth, Wolfgang Herzog, Joachim Szecsenyi

Author Affiliations

1: Department of General Practice and Health Services Research, University Hospital of Heidelberg, Vossstrasse 2, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany. Frank.Peters@med.uni-heidelberg.de

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