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Reducing All-cause 30-day Hospital Readmissions for Patients Presenting with Acute Heart Failure Exacerbations: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Background Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the most common cause of hospitalization in the US for people older than 65 years of age. It has the highest 30-day re-hospitalization rate among medical and surgical conditions, accounting for up to 26.9% of the total readmission rates. We conducted a qu...

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Autores principales: Nair, Raunak, Lak, Hassan, Hasan, Seba, Gunasekaran, Deepthi, Babar, Arslan, Gopalakrishna, K V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7186095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32351805
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.7420