October 12th, 2010
Heart Failure and Resource Use at the End of the Road
Larry Husten, PHD
Two studies of heart failure populations — one conducted in the U.S. and one in Canada — shed light on patterns of resource use in the last 6 months of life. Both studies appear in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Kathleen Unroe and colleagues retrospectively analyzed resource use in a cohort of nearly 230,000 U.S. Medicare […]
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