Improving cost and outcome of coronary surgery

Circulation

Volumn 98, Issue 19 SUPPL., 1998, Pages

  Weintraub, William S ^a,b   Craver, Joseph M ^a   Jones, Ellis L ^a   Gott, John P ^a   Deaton, Christi ^a   Culler, Steven D ^a   Guyton, Robert A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bypass; Cost benefit analysis; Morbidity; Mortality; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0345368077     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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