Association between hospital procedure volume and early complications after pacemaker implantation: Results from a large, unselected, contemporary cohort of the German nationwide obligatory external quality assurance programme

Europace

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 787-793

  Nowak, Bernd ^a   Tasche, Karl ^b   Barnewold, Linda ^b   Heller, Günther ^b   Schmidt, Boris ^a   Bordignon, Stefano ^a   Chun, K R Julian ^a   Fürnkranz, Alexander ^a   Mehta, Rajendra H ^c  

^a CARDIOANGIOLOGISCHES CENTRUM BETHANIEN   (Germany)

^b AQUA   (Germany)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Implantation volume; Lead dislocation; Pacemaker implantation complications; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CAROTID SINUS HYPERSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEVICE INFECTION; DRESS SYNDROME; FAINTNESS; FEMALE; GERMAN (CITIZEN); HEMATOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; PACEMAKER; PACEMAKER IMPLANTATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERMANENT PACEMAKER IMPLANTATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POCKET HAEMATOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND DEGREE ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; SICK SINUS SYNDROME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART PACING; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84929249129     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euv003     Document Type: Article

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