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Estimating cost savings from regionalizing cardiac procedures using hospital discharge data

BACKGROUND: We examined whether higher procedure volumes for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery or percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) were associated with lower costs per patient, and if so, estimated the financial savings from regionalizing cardiac procedures. METHODS: Cost regressi...

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Autores principales: Ho, Vivian, Petersen, Laura A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1919355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17603890
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-7547-5-7