Predicting hospital costs for first-time coronary artery bypass grafting from preoperative and postoperative variables

The American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 772-775

  Mauldin, Patrick D ^a   Weintraub, William S ^a   Becker, Edmund R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGE; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEATH; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; HYPERVOLEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERICARDITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINE RETENTION;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0027971656     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(94)90432-4     Document Type: Article

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