Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 15, Issue 9 , Pages 736-738 , November 2009

Transforming Health Care Through the Medical Home: The Example of Heart Failure

  • Marvin A. Konstam, MD, FACC

      Affiliations

    • The CardioVascular Center, Tufts Medical Center, and Tufts University, Boston, MA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Marvin A. Konstam, MD, Box 108, Tufts Medical Center, 800 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111. Tel: 617-636-6293; Fax: 617-636-7667.
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  • Barry Greenberg, MD, FACC

      Affiliations

    • The University of California, San Diego, Medical Center, San Diego CA

Received 20 August 2009 ,Accepted 22 September 2009.

References 

  1. American Heart Association. Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2009 update: a Report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Circulation. 2009;119:e21–e181
  2. Rich MW. Epidemiology, pathophysiology, and etiology of congestive heart failure in older adults. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1997;45:968–974
  3. Konstam MA, Jessup M, Francis GS, Mann DL, Greenberg B. Advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology: a subspecialty is born. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009;53:834–836

 The opinions expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the editor or the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA).

 Conflict of interest: None.

PII: S1071-9164(09)01088-4

doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2009.09.004

Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 15, Issue 9 , Pages 736-738 , November 2009

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