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Figure 1 State-transition model. Each year a patient can transition between one of four health states. Patients with depressed ejection fraction (EF) may be hospitalized during each year. Transition to heart failure for patients with normal EF is not explicitly modeled, but is accounted for using age-specific medical costs and survival for the general population.
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