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A randomized trial of the efficacy of multidisciplinary care in heart failure outpatients at high risk of hospital readmission

Edward K. Kasper, MD, FACC^*,*, Gary Gerstenblith, MD, FACC^*, Gail Hefter, CRNP^*, Elizabeth Van Anden, PA-C^*, Jeffrey A. Brinker, MD, FACC^*, David R. Thiemann, MD^*, Michael Terrin, MD, Sandra Forman, MA and Sheldon H. Gottlieb, MD, FACC^*

^* Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Maryland Medical Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

View larger version (12K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Life-table first event rates for death or readmission for chronic heart failure. The trial end point was 180 days or six months (p = 0.12 by log-rank). This was not the primary end point, which was death or all readmissions for chronic heart failure.