Follow-up compliance after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in Medicare beneficiaries

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 16-22.e1

  Schanzer, Andres ^a   Messina, Louis M ^a   Ghosh, Kaushik ^b   Simons, Jessica P ^a   Robinson, William P ^a   Aiello, Francesco A ^a   Goldberg, Robert J ^a   Rosen, Allison B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGE; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EMERGENCIES; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919343567     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2014.06.006     Document Type: Article

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