Prevalence and variability of internal mammary artery graft use in contemporary multivessel coronary artery bypass graft surgery analysis of the society of thoracic surgeons national cardiac database

Circulation

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 935-940

  Tabata, Minoru ^a,d   Grab, Joshua D ^b   Khalpey, Zain ^a   Edwards, Fred H ^c   O'Brien, Sean M ^b   Cohn, Lawrence H ^a   Bolman III, Morton R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d SAKAKIBARA HEART INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary disease; Grafting; Quality of health care; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 70349760642     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.832444     Document Type: Article

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