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Noncardiac comorbidity increases preventable hospitalizations and mortality among medicare beneficiaries with chronic heart failure

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Cardiologists and other providers routinely caring for older patients with CHF may improve outcomes in this high-risk population by better recognizing non-CHF conditions, which may complicate traditional CHF management strategies.
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This article is published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology.The article was published on 2003-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 762 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Comorbidity & Population.

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2016 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: The Task Force for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). Developed with the special contribution of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC.

TL;DR: Authors/Task Force Members: Piotr Ponikowski* (Chairperson) (Poland), Adriaan A. Voors* (Co-Chair person) (The Netherlands), Stefan D. Anker (Germany), Héctor Bueno (Spain), John G. F. Cleland (UK), Andrew J. S. Coats (UK)

A systematic review of the literature

TL;DR: Physicians should consider modification of immunosuppressive regimens to decrease the risk of PTD in high-risk transplant recipients and Randomized trials are needed to evaluate the use of oral glucose-lowering agents in transplant recipients.
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Impact Of Socioeconomic Status On Hospital Use In New York City

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Preventable hospitalizations and access to health care

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Readmission After Hospitalization for Congestive Heart Failure Among Medicare Beneficiaries

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