Age difference explains gender difference in cardiac intervention rates after acute myocardial infarction

Healthcare Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 88-103

  Fransoo, Randall R ^a,b   Martens, Patricia J ^a,b   Prior, Heather J ^a   Burland, Elaine ^a   Château, Dan ^a,c   Katz, Alan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c Biostatistical Consulting Unit   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY STENT; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 79851492906     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17156572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12927/hcpol.2010.21901     Document Type: Article

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