Guidelines for Reporting Mortality and Morbidity After Cardiac Valve Interventions-Need for a Reappraisal?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 357-358

  Piazza, Nicolo ^a   Onuma, Yoshinobu ^a   de Jaegere, Peter ^a   Serruys, Patrick W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; EDITORIAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE SURGERY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 58249141128     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.11.054     Document Type: Editorial

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