Physician specialty and carotid stenting among elderly medicare beneficiaries in the United States

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 171, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 1804-1810

  Nallamothu, Brahmajee K ^a,b   Lu, Mingrui ^b   Rogers, Mary A M ^b   Gurm, Hitinder S ^b   Birkmeyer, John D ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELIXHAUSER COMORBIDITY SCORE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; SPECIALIZATION; STROKE; SURGEON; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; STENTS; STROKE; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 81355133447     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.354     Document Type: Article

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