Volume–outcome relation for contemporary percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in daily clinical practice: is it limited to high-risk patients? Results from the Registry of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leitende Kardiologische Krankenhausärzte (ALKK)

Zahn, Ralf; Gottwik, Martin; Hochadel, Matthias; Senges, Jochen; Zeymer, Uwe; Vogt, Andreas; Meinertz, T.; Dietz, Rainer; E. Hauptmann, K.; Grube, E.; Kerber, Sebastian; Sechtem, Udo

doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.118737

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Volume–outcome relation for contemporary percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in daily clinical practice: is it limited to high-risk patients? Results from the Registry of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leitende Kardiologische Krankenhausärzte (ALKK)

Published in Heart • Jul 30, 2007

Authors:

Ralf Zahn

Martin Gottwik

Matthias Hochadel

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: The formerly observed volume-outcome relation for percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) has recently been questioned. DESIGN: We analysed data of the PCI registry of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leitende Kardiologische Krankenhausärzte. PATIENTS: In 2003 a total of 27 965 patients at 67 h...

Subject

Conventional PCI

Medicine

Myocardial infarction

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