Journal article
Referral for specialist follow-up and its association with post-discharge mortality among patients with systolic heart failure (from the National Heart Failure Audit for England & Wales)
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For patients admitted with worsening heart failure, early follow-up after discharge is recommended. Whether outcomes can be improved when follow-up is done by cardiologists is uncertain. We aimed to determine the association between cardiology follow-up and risk of death for patients with heart failure discharged from hospital. Using data from the National Heart Failure Audit (England & Wales), we investigated the effect of referral to cardiology follow-up on 30-day and one-year mortality...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/j.amjcard.2016.10.021
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+ Australian Health and Medical Research Council
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Woodward, M
+ National Institute for Health Research
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Kiran, A
Conrad, N
Salimi-Khorshidi, G
Anderson, S
Rahimi, K
Mohseni, H
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- American Journal of Cardiology Journal website
- Volume:
- 119
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 440-444
- Publication date:
- 2017-02-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-10-24
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1879-1913
- ISSN:
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0002-9149
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pubs:655461
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uuid:a03e74ad-4feb-488b-85dc-9c09cbb8b511
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- pubs:655461
- Source identifiers:
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655461
- Deposit date:
- 2016-10-27
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- © 2016 The Authors Published by Elsevier Inc
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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This is an open access article
under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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