Relationship between hospital volume and outcomes following primary percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Circulation Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1107-1112

  Kuwabara, Hiroyo ^a   Fushimi, Kiyohide ^a   Matsuda, Shinya ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Administrative data; In hospital mortality; Percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGE; AGED; AMBULANCE; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; CHARLSON INDEX SCORE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; IN-HOSPITAL MORTALITY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955746323     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-10-0556     Document Type: Article

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