Opposite trends in hospitalization and mortality after implementation of a chronic care model-based regional program for the management of patients with heart failure in primary care

• Main Authors: Piercarlo Ballo (Author), Francesco Profili (Author), Laura Policardo (Author), Lorenzo Roti (Author), Paolo Francesconi (Author), Alfredo Zuppiroli (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The chronic care model (CCM) is an established framework for the management of patients with chronic illness at the individual and population level. Its application has been previously shown to improve clinical outcome in several conditions, but the prognostic impact of CCM-based...