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International Journal of Clinical Research & Trials Volume 4 (2019), Article ID 4:IJCRT-140, 5 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-8007/2019/140
Research Article
Outcomes of a Transitional Care Clinic to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions at an Urban Academic Medical Center

Justin Lee, Felix Reyes, Minhazul Islam, Mafuzur Rahman, Miguel Ramirez, Jonathan Francois and Samy I. McFarlane*

Department of Medicine, SUNY Downstate Health Science University, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA
Prof. Samy I. McFarlane, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York,11203, USA, Tel: 718-270-6707, Fax: 718- 270-4488; E-mail: smcfarlane@downstate.edu
01 December 2019; 28 December 2019; 30 December 2019
Lee J, Reyes F, Islam M, Rahman M, Ramirez M, et al. (2019) Outcomes of a Transitional Care Clinic to Reduce Heart Failure Readmissions at an Urban Academic Medical Center. Int J Clin Res Trials 4: 140. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-8007/2019/140
This work is supported, in part, by the efforts of Dr. Moro O. Salifu M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., M.A.C.P., Professor and Chairman of Medicine through NIH Grant number S21MD012474.
© 2019 Lee et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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