Regionalization of Care for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Is It Too Soon?

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Pottenger, Brent C ^a   Diercks, Deborah B ^b   Bhatt, Deepak L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONALIZATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 56349160509     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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