Case selection and appropriateness of coronary angiography and coronary artery bypass graft surgery in British Columbia and Ontario

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 246-252

  Anderson, Geoffrey M ^a   Pinfold, S Patricia ^b   Hux, Janet E ^b   Naylor, C David ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

British Columbia; Coronary angiography; Coronary artery bypass graft; Ontario; Patient selection

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PATIENT SELECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030915390     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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