A Prospective Randomized Trial of Outpatient versus Inpatient Cardiac Catheterization
- 10 November 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 319 (19) , 1251-1255
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198811103191904
Abstract
To evaluate the safety and cost of outpatient cardiac catheterization, we conducted a randomized trial at three hospitals of outpatient (n = 192) as compared with inpatient (n = 189) cardiac catheterization in low-risk patients.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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