Comparing clinical outcomes in high-volume and low-volume off-pump coronary bypass operation programs

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2001, Pages

  Brown, Phillip P ^a   Mack, Michael J ^a   Simon, April W ^a   Battaglia, Salvatore L ^a   Tarkington, Lynn G ^a   Culler, Steven D ^a   Becker, Edmund R ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DATA BASE; HEART FUNCTION; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034848282     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)02937-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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