Heart Failure Prevention Methods: Keeping Socioeconomically Unstable Heart Failure Patients out of the Hospital
Abstract
This proposed study intends to compare the effect of two preventative techniques on hospital readmissions and mortality rates for HF patients, using a specific population that is socioeconomically unstable and considered underrepresented in previous studies.
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