No continuous relationship between veterans affairs hospital coronary artery bypass grafting surgical volume and operative mortality

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-20

  Shroyer, A Laurie W ^a   Marshall, Guillermo ^b   Warner, Bradley A ^b   Johnson, Randall R ^b   Guo, Wensheng ^b   Grover, Frederick L ^b   Hammermeister, Karl E ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030041696     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(95)00830-6     Document Type: Article

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