The relation between hospital procedure volume and complications of cardioverter-defibrillator implantation from the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator registry

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 56, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1133-1139

  Freeman, James V ^a   Wang, Yongfei ^b   Curtis, Jeptha P ^b   Heidenreich, Paul A ^c   Hlatky, Mark A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

defibrillation; epidemiology; morbidity; mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL RATE; WORKLOAD;

EID: 77957192218     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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