Posts Tagged ‘heart failure readmissions’

January 9th, 2013

Observation Units for Heart Failure Could Reduce Unnecessary Hospitalizations

Two new papers published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology propose that most heart failure (HF) patients who present to the emergency department (ED) don’t need to be hospitalized and can be safely managed in an observation unit. Currently, the vast majority of HF patients  who show up in the ED are hospitalized. In the first […]