Surgeon Case Volume and 30-Day Mortality after Carotid Endarterectomy among Contemporary Medicare Beneficiaries

Stroke

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1288-1294

  Kumamaru, Hiraku ^a,b   Jalbert, Jessica J ^a,c   Nguyen, Louis L ^a   Gerhard Herman, Marie D ^a   Williams, Lauren A ^a   Chen, Chih Ying ^a   Seeger, John D ^a   Liu, Jun ^a   Franklin, Jessica M ^a   Setoguchi, Soko ^d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c LA SER Analytica   (United States)

^d DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

carotid endarterectomy; carotid stenosis; Medicare; outcomes research

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEPRESSION; ELIXHAUSER COMORBIDITY INDEX; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VASCULAR SURGEON; VERY ELDERLY; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; REIMBURSEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STENT; SURGEON; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAROTID ARTERIES; CAROTID STENOSIS; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH, REIMBURSEMENT; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; SURGEONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84933508869     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.006276     Document Type: Conference Paper

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