Cumulative incidence for wait-list death in relation to length of queue for coronary-artery bypass grafting: A cohort study

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Sobolev, Boris G ^a,b   Kuramoto, Lisa ^b   Levy, Adrian R ^a,c   Hayden, Robert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation   (Canada)

^c CENTRE FOR HEALTH EVALUATION AND OUTCOME SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d British Columbia Cardiac Registries Surgical Research Committee   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 34248525116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-1-21     Document Type: Article

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