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...

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Published in:BMJ Open Qual
Main Authors: Schofield, Toni, Duero Posada, Juan, Foroutan, Farid, Alba, Ana Carolina, McDonald, Michael, Linghorne, Meredith
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2017
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BMJ Quality improvement report
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5699116/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29450270
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2017-000052
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