Andrew Anderson on the Costs of Preventable Heart Failure Hospitalizations
A Health Podyssey
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The Cost of Heart Failure Hospitalizations
The study looked at preventable heart failure hospitalizations in the South. Six of these states, which included Alabama, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, didn't consistently report their hospital discharge data. Of the nine remaining states, four of them either didn't report data on ethnicity or unique hospital identifiers that we actually needed to link up these databases.
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