Impact of wait times on the effectiveness of transcatheter aortic valve replacement in severe aortic valve disease: Adiscrete event simulation model

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1162-1169

  Wijeysundera, Harindra C ^a,b   Wong, William W L ^a   Bennell, Maria C ^a   Fremes, Stephen E ^a   Radhakrishnan, Sam ^a   Peterson, Mark ^c   Ko, Dennis T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SIMULATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TIME; TIME OF DEATH; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; VERY ELDERLY; AORTA VALVE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECISION TREE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; DECISION TREES; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84908037967     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2014.03.009     Document Type: Article

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