Use of cardiac procedures and outcomes in elderly patients with myocardial infarction in the United States and Canada

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 1500-1505

  Tu, Jack V ^a,b,f   Pashos, Chris L ^c,f   Naylor, C David ^a,b   Chen, Erluo ^a   Normand, Sharon Lise ^d,f   Newhouse, Joseph P ^d,e,f   McNeil, Barbara J ^f  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c ABT ASSOCIATES   (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANADA; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ONTARIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030986288     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199705223362106     Document Type: Article

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