Healthcare utilization and clinical outcomes after catheter ablation of atrial flutter

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Dewland, Thomas A ^a   Glidden, David V ^b   Marcus, Gregory M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INCOME; INSURANCE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RACE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RISK REDUCTION; UNITED STATES; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MIDDLE AGED; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAN FRANCISCO;

EID: 84903709720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100509     Document Type: Article

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