Determining optimal population rates of cardiac catheterization: A phantom alternative?

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-52

  Natarajan, Madhu K ^a,b   Gafni, Amiram ^a   Yusuf, Salim ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; CANADA; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHANTOM; STROKE; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 22144492604     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.050432     Document Type: Note

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