Treatment of Patients Admitted to the Hospital With Congestive Heart Failure: Specialty-Related Disparities in Practice Patterns and Outcomes
Journal of the American College of CardiologyPublished 1 July 1997
Steven E. Reís, Richard Holubkov, Daniel Edmundowicz, Dennis M. McNamara, Kathleen A. Zell, Katherine M. Detre
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Involvement of a cardiologist in the care of patients admitted to the hospital with CHF is associated with increased use of diagnostic testing, longer hospital stays and improved clinical outcome, which substantiate practice guidelines that suggest a role for cardiologists in the Care of symptomatic patients withCHF.
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Involvement of a cardiologist in the care of patients admitted to the hospital with CHF is associated with increased use of diagnostic testing, longer hospital stays and improved clinical outcome. These results substantiate practice guidelines that suggest a role for cardiologists in the care of symptomatic patients with CHF.
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