Discharge Education Improves Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure
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- 18 January 2005
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 111 (2) , 179-185
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.0000151811.53450.b8
Abstract
Background— Although interventions combining patient education and postdischarge management have demonstrated benefits in patients with chronic heart failure, the benefit attributable to patient education alone is not known. We hypothesized that a patient discharge education program would improve clinical outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure.Keywords
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