Determinants of geographic variations in pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators implantation rates

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1 II, 2003, Pages 474-478

  Ovsyshcher, I Eli ^a   Furman, Seymour ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic variation; ICD; Implant rate; Pacemaker

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEFIBRILLATOR; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 0037253167     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00075.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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