Relation of Operator Volume and Experience to Procedural Outcome of Percutaneous Coronary Revascularization at Hospitals With High Interventional Volumes
- 3 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 95 (11) , 2479-2484
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.95.11.2479
Abstract
Background Although an inverse relation between physician caseload and complications has been conclusively demonstrated for several surgical procedures, such data are lacking for percutaneous coron...Keywords
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