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Volume-based referral for cardiovascular procedures in the United States: a cross-sectional regression analysis

BACKGROUND: We sought to estimate the numbers of patients affected and deaths avoided by adopting the Leapfrog Group's recommended hospital procedure volume minimums for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). In addition to hospital risk-adjust...

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Autores principales: Epstein, Andrew J, Rathore, Saif S, Krumholz, Harlan M, Volpp, Kevin GM
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1175086/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15935099
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-5-42