American Heart Journal
Volume 154, Issue 2 , Pages 260-266, August 2007

Repeated hospitalizations predict mortality in the community population with heart failure

  • Soko Setoguchi, MD, DrPH

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Soko Setoguchi, MD, DrPH, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology, 1620 Tremont St, Suite 3030, Boston, MA 02130.
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  • Lynne Warner Stevenson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Advanced Heart Disease Section, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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  • Sebastian Schneeweiss, MD, ScD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Received 9 October 2006; accepted 16 January 2007. published online 19 June 2007.

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 This project was supported by grants from the National Institute on Aging (R01-AG021950) and from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2-RO1-HS10881), Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, MD.

PII: S0002-8703(07)00378-X

doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2007.01.041

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American Heart Journal
Volume 154, Issue 2 , Pages 260-266, August 2007

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