Mortality and treatment patterns among patients hospitalized with acute cardiovascular conditions during dates of national cardiology meetings

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 237-244

  Jena, Anupam B ^a,b,c   Prasad, Vinay ^a,d   Goldman, Dana P ^a,e   Romley, John ^a,f  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGY MEETING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART FAILURE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; TEACHING HOSPITAL; CARDIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOLOGY; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84922228859     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: 21686114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.6781     Document Type: Article

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