Turns out it can mean different things to different businesses. Perhaps in no other industry are acronyms bandied about as in technology, especially business technology. CRM is one such widely-used acronym that stands for Customer Relationship Management. Mention CRM and many listeners' eyes will glaze over with boredom-but that's probably because they don't really understand what it is.
The National Institutes of Health estimates that 550,000 new cases of heart failure are diagnosed each year. The National Institutes of Health estimates that 550,000 new cases of heart failure are diagnosed each year.
Heart failure has a poor prognosis: 30â40% of patients diagnosed with heart failure die within a year â but thereafter the mortality is less than 10% per year. There is evidence of a trend of improved prognosis in the past 10 years. The 6-month mortality rate decreased from 26% in 1995 to 14% in 2005.