The effectiveness of disease management programmes in reducing hospital re-admission in older patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published reports

Gonseth-Garcia, Jonas

doi:10.1016/j.ehj.2004.04.022

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The effectiveness of disease management programmes in reducing hospital re-admission in older patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of published reports

Published in European Heart Journal • Aug 24, 2004

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Jonas Gonseth-Garcia

Abstract

AIMS: To systematically evaluate the published evidence regarding the effectiveness of disease management programmes (DMPs) reducing hospital re-admissions among elderly patients with heart failure (HF). METHODS AND RESULTS: Computerised search of MEDLINE (1966 to 31 August 2003) and EMBASE (1966 to...

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Medicine

Meta-analysis

Relative risk

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