The Role of Risk Models in Upholding Standards for Percutaneous Coronary Interventions

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 144-145

  Jollis, James G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

hospital mortality; myocardial infarction; outcome assessment (health care); percutaneous coronary transluminal angioplasty; quality of health care

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CARDIOLOGY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CARDIOLOGY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY;

EID: 59149086723     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2008.11.007     Document Type: Editorial

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