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Care Transitions and Readmissions

Reducing Readmissions among Heart Failure Patients Discharged to Home Health Care
from HSR Volume 52 | Issue 4 | August 2017

Christopher M. Murtaugh, Partha Deb, Carolyn Zhu, Timothy R. Peng, Yolanda Barrón, Shivani Shah, Stanley M. Moore, Kathryn H. Bowles, Jill Kalman, Penny H. Feldman and Albert L. Siu

Objective: To compare the effectiveness of two “treatments”—early, intensive home health nursing and physician follow-up within a week—versus less intense ... read more | subscribe

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