Community Paramedic Home Care Program for Acute Decompensated Heart Failure: A Pilot Study.

Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes

Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Division of Circulatory Failure (S.S., A.F., H.C., G.L.), Rochester, MN.

Published: September 2023

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