Depression is common after a heart attack or stroke, and previous research has indicated that depression more than triples the risk of dying within the subsequent six months after a heart attack.

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There are 65 "performance indicators" it has to routinely measure, while 150 "quality standards" govern what is expected across a range of areas from stroke care to treatment for depression.

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Seventy-five years ago, in the depths of the Great Depression, with a stroke of a pen, President Franklin D.

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