Does admission to a teaching hospital affect acute myocardial infarction survival?

Academic Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 475-482

  Navathe, Amol S ^a,b   Silber, Jeffrey H ^c   Zhu, Jingsan ^c   Volpp, Kevin G ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 84875838494     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182858673     Document Type: Article

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