Outcomes of cardiac surgery in Aboriginal Australians: What are the problems and what's to be done?

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-131

  McDonald, Malcolm ^a,b   Currie, Bart ^a,b  

^a MENZIES SCHOOL OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; WARFARIN;

ABORIGINE; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AUSTRALIA; BLEEDING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; EDITORIAL; HEART DISEASE; HEART REHABILITATION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 3042813418     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2004.03.012     Document Type: Editorial

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