Thresholds for abdominal aortic aneurysm repair in England and the United States

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 375, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 2051-2059

  Karthikesalingam, Alan ^a   Vidal Diez, Alberto ^a   Holt, Peter J ^a   Loftus, Ian M ^a   Schermerhorn, Marc L ^b   Soden, Peter A ^b   Landon, Bruce E ^b   Thompson, Matthew M ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGE; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SEX; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED STATES; ABDOMINAL AORTA; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC RUPTURE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84996956137     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1600931     Document Type: Article

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