Study: Heart failure drug guidelines often ignored
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 15:28
in Health & Medicine
CHICAGO (AP) -- Most hospitalized heart failure patients are sent home without widely recommended inexpensive pills, despite a program to get more doctors to follow treatment guidelines, a study suggests....
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