Variation in outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention in the United States and predictors of periprocedural mortality

Cardiology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 143-147

  Mukherjee, Debabrata ^a,c   Wainess, Reid M ^b   Dimick, Justin B ^b   Cowan, John A ^b   Rajagopalan, Sanjay ^a   Chetcuti, Stanley ^a   Grossman, Paul M ^a   Upchurch, Gilbert R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Hospital volume; Mortality; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Regional variation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; AGE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 21744435755     PISSN: 00086312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000084029     Document Type: Article

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