Hospital volume and outcome after coronary angioplasty: Is there a role for certificate of need regulation?

American Heart Journal

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 383-385

  Vaughan Sarrazin, Mary S ^a   Rosenthal, Gary E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; HUMAN; NOTE; RISK; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CALIFORNIA; CERTIFICATE OF NEED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FLORIDA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2342443374     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2003.10.013     Document Type: Editorial

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