American Heart Journal
Volume 158, Issue 3 , Pages 459-466 , September 2009

Heart failure disease management program experience in 4,545 heart failure admissions to a community hospital

  • Antonio Pazin-Filho, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Medical School of Ribeirao Preto, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Antonio Pazin-Filho, R. Bernardino de Campus, 1000, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil, CEP, 14030-100.
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  • Pamela Peitz, RN

      Affiliations

    • Washington County Hospital, Hagerstown, MD
    • ,
  • Thomas Pianta, MPT

      Affiliations

    • Washington County Hospital, Hagerstown, MD
    • ,
  • Kathryn A. Carson, ScM

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
    • ,
  • Stuart D. Russell, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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  • Leigh Ebony Boulware, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
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  • Josef Coresh, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

Received 19 January 2009 ,Accepted 13 June 2009.

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PII: S0002-8703(09)00479-7

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2009.06.024

American Heart Journal
Volume 158, Issue 3 , Pages 459-466 , September 2009

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