Hospital Variation in Outcomes for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement among Medicare Beneficiaries, 2011 to 2013

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 66, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 2678-2679

  Murugiah, Karthik ^a   Wang, Yun ^a   Desai, Nihar R ^a   Nuti, Sudhakar V ^a   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; ICD-9; LETTER; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SEPSIS; SHOCK; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; HOSPITAL; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84961675514     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.10.008     Document Type: Letter

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