Determining the Cost Economic "Tipping Point" for the Addition of a Regional Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Facility

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 567-572

  Bakal, Jeffrey A ^a   Kaul, Padma ^a   Welsh, Robert C ^a   Johnstone, David ^b   Armstrong, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR MEDICAL TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

ALGORITHMS; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT TRANSFER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 81255159075     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2011.03.007     Document Type: Article

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