Health Literacy and Mortality: A Cohort Study of Patients Hospitalized for Acute Heart Failure
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I n the article by McNaughton et al, “Health Literacy and Mortality: A Cohort Study of Patients Hospitalized for Acute Heart Failure,” which published online April 29, 2015, and appeared in the May 2015 issue of the journal (J Am Heart Assoc. 2015;4:e001799 doi: 10.1161/JAHA.115. 001799), on page 1, in the Abstract, the penultimate sentence of theMethods and Results section contained errors. “Adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] for death among patients with LHL was 1.34 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.04, 1.73, P=0.02) compared to BHLS>9.” has been changed to read “Adjusted hazard ratio [aHR] for death among patients with LHL was 1.32 (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.05, 1.66, P=0.02) compared to BHLS>9.” The authors regret these errors. The online version of the article has been updated and is available at http://jaha.ahajournals.org/content/4/5/e001799.
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دوره 4 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2015