Specialty Cardiac Hospitals
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Specialty cardiac hospitals: how special are they?
Specialty hospitals, owned and operated by physicians with an expertise in a particular medical condition, offer the opportunity to design a utopian care environment for optimal delivery of care. In fact, the concept of specialty heart hospitals dates back to the mid-19th century in England, with the opening in 1857 of London’s National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and Paralysis. The inst...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.107.736967