Can home care for homebound patients with chronic heart failure reduce hospitalizations and costs?

• Boris Punchik,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Home Care Unit, Clalit Health Services, Yasski Clinic, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Unit for Community Geriatrics, Division of Health in the Community, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Roman Komarov,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clalit Health Services, Southern District, Kenion Ha Negev Towers, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Dmitry Gavrikov,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Home Care Unit, Clalit Health Services, Yasski Clinic, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Clalit Health Services, Southern District, Kenion Ha Negev Towers, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Anna Semenov,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Home Care Unit, Clalit Health Services, Yasski Clinic, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Clalit Health Services, Southern District, Kenion Ha Negev Towers, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Tamar Freud,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Siaal Family Medicine and Primary Care Research Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Ella Kagan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Home Care Unit, Clalit Health Services, Yasski Clinic, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Unit for Community Geriatrics, Division of Health in the Community, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Yury Goldberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Home Care Unit, Clalit Health Services, Yasski Clinic, Beer-Sheva, Israel

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• Yan Press

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yanpr@clalit.org.il

  Affiliations Home Care Unit, Clalit Health Services, Yasski Clinic, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Department of Family Medicine, Siaal Family Medicine and Primary Care Research Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9245-4891

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