Are the marginal returns of coronary artery surgery smaller in high-rate areas?

Lancet

Volumn 348, Issue 9036, 1996, Pages 1202-1207

  Hux, Janet E ^a,b   Naylor, C David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 16044367056     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)04091-3     Document Type: Article

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