Practice variation among hospitals in revascularization therapy and its association with procedure-related mortality

Medical Care

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 623-631

  Dalton, Jarrod E ^a   Zidar, David A ^b   Udeh, Belinda L ^a   Patel, Manesh R ^c   Schold, Jesse D ^a   Dawson, Neal V ^d  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^c DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass graft; Mortality; Percutaneous coronary intervention; Revascularization; Risk model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; SURGICAL MORTALITY; AGED; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84962355506     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000536     Document Type: Article

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