Brief Report: Patient Activation Among Urban Hospitalized Patients With Heart Failure
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Author Affiliations:Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Yin, Leis); Sunnybrook Research Institute, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Kiss, Leis); Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Kiss, Leis); Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Hea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cardiac Failure
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1071-9164
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2017.08.452