Heart Failure and Hospital Utilization Trajectories Before and After Hip Fracture Surgery
Sijia Wei1, Wei Pan2, Chiyoung Lee3
1Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC, USA; Center for Education in Health Sciences, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
|June 30, 2022
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