Long-term outcomes of abdominal aortic aneurysm in the medicare population

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 373, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 328-338

  Schermerhorn, Marc L ^a   Buck, Dominique B ^a   James O'Malley, A ^d   Curran, Thomas ^a   McCallum, John C ^a   Darling, Jeremy ^a   Landon, Bruce E ^b,c  

^a Departments of Surgery   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH POLICY AND CLINICAL PRACTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OPEN REPAIR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; VERY ELDERLY; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; PROPENSITY SCORE; REOPERATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MEDICARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPENSITY SCORE; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84937845664     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1405778     Document Type: Article

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