Sisyphus and 30-Day Heart Failure Readmissions: Futility in Predicting a Flawed Outcome Metric

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¹ The CardioVascular Center of Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: mkonstam@tuftsmedicalcenter.org.
² The CardioVascular Center of Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Marvin A Konstam et al. JACC Heart Fail. 2016 Jan.

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. 2016 Jan;4(1):21-3.

doi: 10.1016/j.jchf.2015.10.002. Epub 2015 Dec 2.

¹ The CardioVascular Center of Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: mkonstam@tuftsmedicalcenter.org.
² The CardioVascular Center of Tufts Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Keywords: healthcare outcomes; healthcare quality; predictive models.

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