Study: Heart failure drug guidelines often ignored

Courtesy Headlines from the Associated Press  Tue, 10/20/2009 - 14:01

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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