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Availability of Healthcare Provider and Healthcare Facility for Adult Filipino Patients Hospitalized for Congestive Heart Failure

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Noemi S. Pestaño, MD1, Bernadette A. Tumanan-Mendoza, MD1,2, Victor L. Mendoza, MD3,4,  Felix Eduardo Punzalan, MD1,5, April Ann A. Bermudez, MD1, Rudy Boy Natividad, MD1,  Renelene Macabeo, MD1, Louie Alfred Shiu, MD1 

1Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Manila Doctors Hospital 

2Department of Clinical Epidemiology, University of the Philippines Manila, College of Medicine 

3Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, De La Salle University Medical Center 

4Department of Physiology, De La Salle Health Sciences Institute College of Medicine 

5Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Cardiology, Philippine General Medicine 

Correspondence to Noemi S. Pestaño, MD, Section of Cardiology, Manila Doctors Hospital, Room 1031, Norberto Ty  Medical Tower 2, TM Kalaw St, Ermita, Manila, 1000, Philippines; noemipestano@yanoo.com.

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