Hospital readmissions reduction program

Affiliations

¹ From Section of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora (C.K.M., L.A.A.); Colorado Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Consortium, Denver (C.K.M., L.A.A.); and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC (Z.J.E.).
² From Section of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora (C.K.M., L.A.A.); Colorado Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Consortium, Denver (C.K.M., L.A.A.); and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC (Z.J.E.). larry.allen@ucdenver.edu.

Colleen K McIlvennan et al. Circulation. 2015.

. 2015 May 19;131(20):1796-803.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.010270.

¹ From Section of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora (C.K.M., L.A.A.); Colorado Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Consortium, Denver (C.K.M., L.A.A.); and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC (Z.J.E.).
² From Section of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora (C.K.M., L.A.A.); Colorado Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Consortium, Denver (C.K.M., L.A.A.); and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC (Z.J.E.). larry.allen@ucdenver.edu.

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Keywords: health care quality, access, and evaluation; health policy; heart failure; patient readmission.

Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None.

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