Assessing the association of appropriateness of coronary revascularization and clinical outcomes for patients with stable coronary artery disease

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 60, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 1876-1884

  Ko, Dennis T ^a,b,c   Guo, Helen ^a   Wijeysundera, Harindra C ^a,b,c   Natarajan, Madhu K ^d   Nagpal, A Dave ^e   Feindel, Christopher M ^c,f   Kingsbury, Kori ^g   Cohen, Eric A ^b,c   Tu, Jack V ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^g Cardiac Care Network of Ontario   (Canada)

Author keywords

appropriateness; coronary revascularization; outcomes

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84868198145     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.06.056     Document Type: Article

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