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Research from A. Macchia and co-authors provides new data about heart failure

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, September 4th, 2008

Investigators publish new data in the report 'Depression worsens outcomes in elderly patients with heart failure: an analysis of 48,117 patients in a community setting.' In this recent report published in the European Journal of Heart Failure, researchers in Santa Maria Imbaro, Italy conducted a study "To assess the relationship between depression and clinical outcomes among elderly patients with heart failure (HF) in a community setting. To identify patients with HF and depression we used record linkage analysis of hospital discharge records, prescription databases and vital statistics."

"All consecutive patients aged >or=60 years in 6 Local Health...

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