Evidence-based beta blocker use associated with lower heart failure readmission and mortality, but not all-cause readmission, among Medicare beneficiaries hospitalized for heart failure with reduced ejection fraction

• Matthew Shane Loop ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: matthew_loop@unc.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9442-4573

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• Melissa K. Van Dyke,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Observational Research, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, United States of America

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• Ligong Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Todd M. Brown,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Raegan W. Durant,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Monika M. Safford,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Emily B. Levitan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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