Hospital readmissions after continuous-flow left ventricular assist device implantation: Incidence, causes, and cost analysis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 884-889

  Akhter, Shahab A ^a   Badami, Abbasali ^a   Murray, Margaret ^a   Kohmoto, Takushi ^a   Lozonschi, Lucian ^a   Osaki, Satoru ^a   Lushaj, Entela B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTINUOUS FLOW LEFT VENTRICULAR ASSIST DEVICE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRIVELINE INFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRANSPLANTATION; COST; ECONOMICS; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84940723713     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.03.010     Document Type: Article

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