Exploring the volume-outcome relationship for off-pump coronary artery bypass graft procedures

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 547-553

  Plomondon, Mary E ^b   Casebeer, Adrianne W ^b   Schooley, Lynn M ^b   Wagner, Brandie D ^b   Grunwald, Gary K ^b   McDonald, Gerald O ^b   Grover, Frederick L ^b   Shroyer, A Laurie W ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGOXIN; DIURETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORBIDITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 31044432949     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.08.001     Document Type: Article

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