Racial and Gender Trends in the Use of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators Among Medicare Beneficiaries Between 1997 and 2003
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- 1 March 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Congestive Heart Failure
- Vol. 15 (2) , 51-57
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-7133.2009.00060.x
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