Increased Mortality at Low-Volume Orthotopic Heart Transplantation Centers: Should Current Standards Change?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1250-1260

  Weiss, Eric S ^a   Meguid, Robert A ^a   Patel, Nishant D ^a   Russell, Stuart D ^a   Shah, Ashish S ^a   Baumgartner, William A ^a   Conte, John V ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FUNDING; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CENTER VOLUME; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ROC CURVE;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52049122608     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.06.071     Document Type: Article

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