Review of efforts to decrease costly leg wound complications in the medicare population following coronary revascularization

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 258-263

  Brandt, C Phillip ^a   Greene, G Clark ^a   Pollard, Thomas R ^a   Hall, William C ^a   Bufkin, Bradley L ^a   Briggs, Richard M ^a   Harville, Lacy E ^a   Maggart, Michael L ^a   Ware, Robert E ^a  

^a E Tennessee Cardiovasc Surg Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG INJURY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORBID OBESITY; MORTALITY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL WOUND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOSCOPY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0041327870     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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