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Letter to the editor regarding the article “rationale for targeted self-management strategies for breathlessness in heart failure”

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  1. Division of Nursing Science, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3, Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8553, Japan

    Jun Kako & Kohei Kajiwara

  2. Faculty of Nursing, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

    Masamitsu Kobayashi & Yasufumi Oosono

  3. Department of Health Science, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

    Hiroko Noto

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Kako, J., Kajiwara, K., Kobayashi, M. et al. Letter to the editor regarding the article “rationale for targeted self-management strategies for breathlessness in heart failure”. Heart Fail Rev 25, 891–892 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10741-020-09939-7

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