Regular nurse follow up calls may improve time to hospitalisation, but not other outcomes, for people with heart failure. Commentary

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Lee R Goldberg. Evid Based Cardiovasc Med. 2005 Dec.

. 2005 Dec;9(4):318-21.

doi: 10.1016/j.ebcm.2005.09.006. Epub 2005 Nov 2.

¹ Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

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