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General Interest Articles

11. Degree of disability and patterns of caregiving among older Americans with congestive heart failure.

Author
Gure TR; Kabeto MU; Blaum CS; Langa KM;
Institution
Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Center for Practice Management & Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. tanruff@med.umich.edu
Journal
J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Jan;23(1):70-6. Epub 2007 Nov 21.
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12. Congestive heart failure disease management in Medicare-managed care.

Author
Mehrotra A; McNeil BJ; Landon BE;
Institution
RAND Health, the Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Journal
Am Heart J. 2007 Dec;154(6):1153-9. Epub 2007 Sep 14.
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13. Patterns and predictors of early hospital readmission in patients with congestive heart failure.

Author
Hallerbach M; Francoeur A; Pomerantz SC; Oliner C; Morris DL; Eiger G; Cohn J; Goldfinger M;
Institution
Department of Internal Medicine, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA. hallerm@einstein.edu
Journal
Am J Med Qual. 2008 Jan-Feb;23(1):18-23.
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14. Improving end-of-life care for patients with chronic heart failure: "Let's hope it'll get better, when I know in my heart of hearts it won't".

Author
Selman L; Harding R; Beynon T; Hodson F; Coady E; Hazeldine C; Walton M; Gibbs L; Higginson IJ;
Institution
Department of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, King's College London School of Medicine, Weston Education Centre, London, UK. lucy.selman@kcl.ac.uk
Journal
Heart. 2007 Aug;93(8):963-7. Epub 2007 Feb 19.
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15. Acute myocardial infarction and congestive heart failure outcomes at specialty cardiac hospitals.

Author
Nallamothu BK; Wang Y; Cram P; Birkmeyer JD; Ross JS; Normand SL; Krumholz HM;
Institution
Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Ann Arbor VA Medical Center, and Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Mich, USA. bnallamo@umich.edu
Journal
Circulation. 2007 Nov 13;116(20):2280-7. Epub 2007 Oct 29.
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16. Long-term survival of incident hemodialysis patients who are hospitalized for congestive heart failure, pulmonary edema, or fluid overload.

Author
Banerjee D; Ma JZ; Collins AJ; Herzog CA;
Institution
Renal and Transplantation Unit, St. George's Hospital NHS Trust, Tooting, London, UK, SW17 0QT. Debasish.Banerjee@stgeorges.nhs.uk
Journal
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2007 Nov;2(6):1186-90. Epub 2007 Oct 17.
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17. Effects of ICD implantation on quality-adjusted life years in patients with congestive heart failure.

Author
Ozasa N; Morimoto T; Furukawa Y; Shizuta S; Nishiyama K; Kita T; Kimura T;
Institution
Journal
Int J Cardiol. 2008 Jan 11;123(2):213-6. Epub 2007 Mar 26.
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18. Highlights of the 2006 scientific sessions of the Heart Failure Society of America: Seattle, Washington, September 10-13, 2006.

Author
Gottlieb SS; Mann DL; Francis GS;
Institution
University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA. sgottlie@medicine.umaryland.edu
Journal
J Am Coll Cardiol. 2007 Feb 6;49(5):608-15. Epub 2007 Jan 22.

19. Relation between cardiac troponin I and mortality in acute decompensated heart failure.

Author
You JJ; Austin PC; Alter DA; Ko DT; Tu JV;
Institution
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Journal
Am Heart J. 2007 Apr;153(4):462-70.
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20. An obesity paradox in acute heart failure: analysis of body mass index and inhospital mortality for 108,927 patients in the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry.

Author
Fonarow GC; Srikanthan P; Costanzo MR; Cintron GB; Lopatin M;
Institution
Ahmanson/University of California-Los Angeles Cardiomyopathy Center, University of California-Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. gfonarow@mednet.ucla.edu
Journal
Am Heart J. 2007 Jan;153(1):74-81.
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