Population
230 consecutive Japanese patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure at 5 teaching hospitals in…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
mean 2.4 years
Authors
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Prioritizes readmission prevention in Japanese CHF care; leaves open generalizability beyond this cohort.
Japanese patients hospitalized with CHF demonstrate a relatively low 1-year mortality (8.3%) but high readmission rates (40%), highlighting demographic and prognostic differences from typical community-based or large clinical trial populations.
Tsuchihashi et al. (2000) studied this question.
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