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JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 689-691

  Shah, Atman P ^a   French, William J ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

acute myocardial infarction; outcomes; percutaneous coronary intervention; ST segment elevation myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH; EDITORIAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; STENT; SYMPTOM; THROMBECTOMY;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FATIGUE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

EID: 57549090024     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2008.08.019     Document Type: Editorial

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