Chronic heart failure

publication date: Oct 26, 2011
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'Currently the NHS spends £1 billion/year, apparently on managing heart failure badly'

This was the conclusion of the Lancet editorial on the National Heart Failure Audit 2010 (Lancet 2011;376:2041). So let's look at the audit, and then the NICE guidelines on CHF from August 2010.



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