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A local quality initiative to improve follow-up times for patients with heart failure
Introduction Heart failure is the most common cause of hospital admission in patients >65 years and around 50% of patients will be readmitted within 6 months. Inability to achieve timely outpatient follow-up may contribute to the high rates of avoidable rehospitalisation for this group of patient...
Autores principales: | Schofield, Toni, Duero Posada, Juan, Foroutan, Farid, Alba, Ana Carolina, McDonald, Michael, Linghorne, Meredith |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5699116/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29450270 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2017-000052 |
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