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Figure 5 Case fatality rate per year among incident (white bars) and prevalent (black bars) cases in the Resource Utilization Among Congestive Heart Failure study. The higher mortality among incident cases relative to prevalent cases before 1994 most likely represents lead-time bias in the index case ascertainment algorithm. *p < 0.01.
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