The experience of the control group before and
after entry to the project is seen in table 4. The
increase in readmission days-167 to 238-was
not unexpected because of the progressive nature
of the disease. From the point of view of the
number of hospital readmissions and the number
of days hospitalized for congestive heart failure
recurrences, significant improvement in the study
patients was noted (tables 2-4).