Association of Physician Certification in Interventional Cardiology With In-Hospital Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

Circulation

Volumn 132, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 1816-1824

  Fiorilli, Paul N ^a   Minges, Karl E ^b   Herrin, Jeph ^c,d   Messenger, John C ^e   Ting, Henry H ^f   Nallamothu, Brahmajee K ^g   Lipner, Rebecca S ^h   Hess, Brian J ^h,i   Holmboe, Eric S ^j   Brennan, Joseph J ^b   Curtis, Jeptha P ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Health Research and Educational Trust   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^h AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ Hess Consulting   (Canada)

^j Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education   (United States)

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Author keywords

acute coronary syndromes; acute myocardial infarction; angioplasty; catheter based coronary interventions, stents; chronic ischemic heart disease; coronary revascularization; health policy and outcome research; registries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BLEEDING TENDENCY; CERTIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AGED; CARDIOLOGY SERVICE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS;

AGED; CARDIOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; CERTIFICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PHYSICIANS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84947494402     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.017523     Document Type: Article

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