Volume-outcome relation for physicians and hospitals performing angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction in New York state

Circulation

Volumn 104, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 2171-2176

  Vakili, Babak A ^a   Kaplan, Robert ^a   Brown, David L ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Catheters; Mortality; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035975953     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/hc3901.096668     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Analysis and comparison of operator-specific outcomes in interventional cardiology: From a multicenter database of 4860 quality-controlled procedures
2. Relation of operator volume and experience to procedural outcome of percutaneous coronary revascularization at hospitals with high interventional volumes
3. Coronary angioplasty volume-outcome relationships for hospitals and cardiologists
4. Operator volume and outcomes in 12,998 percutaneous coronary interventions
5. Comparison of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty outcome and hospital costs for lowvolume and high-volume operators
6. Operator volume and outcome of patients undergoing coronary stent placement
7. Association between percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty volumes and outcomes in the Healthcare Costs and Utilization Project 1993-4
8. Relationship between physician and hospital coronary angioplasty volume and outcome in elderly patients
9. The relation between the volume of coronary angioplasty procedures at hospitals treating Medicare beneficiaries and short-term mortality
10. Frequency of major adverse cardiac events within one month of coronary angioplasty: A useful measure of operator performance
11. The relationship between operator volume and outcomes after percutaneous coronary interventions in high volume hospitals in 1994-1996: The northern New England experience
12. Evolution of the volume-outcome relation for hospitals performing coronary angioplasty
13. The volume of primary angioplasty procedures and survival after acute myocardial infarction
14. Short- and long-term mortality for patients undergoing primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction
15. Epidemiology of avoidable delay in the care of patients with acute myocardial infarction in Italy
16. Time to presentation with acute myocardial infarction in the elderly: Associations with race, sex, and socioeconomic characteristics
17. Relationship of symptomonset-to-balloon time and door-to-balloon time with mortality in patients undergoing angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction
18. Predictors of success and major complications for primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction: An analysis of the 1990 to 1994 Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions registries
19. A comparison of thrombolytic therapy with primary coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction
20. Coronary angioplasty with or without stent implantation for acute myocardial infarction
21. Randomized placebo controlled trial of platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa blockade with primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction
22. Relation between hospital primary angioplasty volume and mortality for patients with acute MI treated with primary angioplasty vs thrombolytic therapy