Appropriate Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Use in the Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Era: Are We Finally Making Progress?

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 241-243

  Osnabrugge, Ruben L J ^a   Head, Stuart J ^a   Bogers, Ad J J C ^a   Kappetein, A Pieter ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Appropriateness; CABG; PCI

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; SURGICAL RISK;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84875393834     PISSN: 10430679     EISSN: 15329488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2012.11.005     Document Type: Article

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