Public reporting of cardiac data: Pros, cons, and lessons for the future

Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Care: Volume 1: Outcomes Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 467-478

  Hannan, Edward L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

Author keywords

CABG surgery; New York state cardiac registries; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Public reporting; Risk adjusted mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947431558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-6587-3_35     Document Type: Chapter

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