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Large Heart-Failure Disease-Management Trial Fails to Show Clinical Benefit
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Title Large Heart-Failure Disease-Management Trial Fails to Show Clinical Benefit
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/570205?src=rss
Description Comparing disease-management strategies with conventional follow-up for survivors of a heart failure hospitalization failed to show that the intervention reduces mortality or rehospitalization. Medscape Medical News
Category Articles > Cardiology
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Date Feb 15, 2008
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