The effects of New York's bypass surgery provider profiling on access to care and patient outcomes in the elderly

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 993-999

  Peterson, Eric D ^a,b   Delong, Elizabeth R ^a,c   Jollis, James G ^a,b   Muhlbaier, Lawrence H ^a,c   Mark, Daniel B ^a,b  

^a DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Department of Community and Family Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC SURGERY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEW YORK; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032191392     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(98)00332-5     Document Type: Article

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