Mortality in medicare beneficiaries following coronary artery bypass graft surgery in states with and without certificate of need regulation

JAMA

Volumn 288, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 1859-1866

  Vaughan Sarrazin, Mary S ^a   Hannan, Edward L ^b   Gormley, Carol J ^c   Rosenthal, Gary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EID: 0037120906     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.288.15.1859     Document Type: Article

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