Admission to hospitals with on-site cardiac catheterization facilities: Impact on long-term costs and outcomes

Circulation

Volumn 98, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 2010-2016

  Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,f   Chen, Jersey ^b   Murillo, Jaime E ^c   Cohen, David J ^d   Radford, Martha J ^e  

^a Section of Cardiovascular Medicine   (United States)

^b Sect Chron Dis Epidemiol Y   (United States)

^c YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Connecticut Peer Review Organization ^*

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cost benefit analysis; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032506280     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.98.19.2010     Document Type: Article

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