Acute Decompensated Heart Failure Is Routinely Treated as a Cardiopulmonary Syndrome

• Kumar Dharmarajan ,

  * E-mail: kumar.dharmarajan@yale.edu

  Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Kelly M. Strait,

  Affiliation Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Tara Lagu,

  Affiliations Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Peter K. Lindenauer,

  Affiliations Center for Quality of Care Research, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Mary E. Tinetti,

  Affiliations Program on Aging, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Joanne Lynn,

  Affiliation Altarum Institute, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

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• Shu-Xia Li,

  Affiliation Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Harlan M. Krumholz

  Affiliations Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Health Policy and Administration, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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