2015
Readmissions After Carotid Artery Revascularization in the Medicare Population
Al-Damluji MS, Dharmarajan K, Zhang W, Geary LL, Stilp E, Dardik A, Mena-Hurtado C, Curtis JP. Readmissions After Carotid Artery Revascularization in the Medicare Population. Journal Of The American College Of Cardiology 2015, 65: 1398-1408. PMID: 25857904, PMCID: PMC4403264, DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.01.048.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAgedAged, 80 and overCarotid StenosisEndarterectomy, CarotidFemaleHumansMaleMedicarePatient ReadmissionPopulation SurveillanceTreatment OutcomeUnited StatesConceptsRisk-standardized readmission ratesCarotid artery stentingHospital risk-standardized readmission ratesCarotid revascularizationCarotid endarterectomyReadmission ratesHospital variationReadmission riskService administrative claims dataKaplan-Meier survival curvesLogistic regressionCarotid artery revascularizationPrior clinical researchAcute care hospitalizationDays of dischargeHospital-level variationSevere carotid stenosisCause hospital readmissionAdministrative claims dataMixed-effects logistic regressionChoice of procedureArtery revascularizationIschemic strokeArtery stentingHospital readmission
2008
Review of the Registry's Second Year, Data Collected, and Plans to Add Lead and Pediatric ICD Procedures
Hammill SC, Kremers MS, Stevenson LW, Kadish AH, Heidenreich PA, Lindsay BD, Mirro MJ, Radford MJ, Wang Y, Curtis JP, Lang CM, Harder JC, Brindis RG. Review of the Registry's Second Year, Data Collected, and Plans to Add Lead and Pediatric ICD Procedures. Heart Rhythm 2008, 5: 1359-1363. PMID: 18774117, DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.07.015.Peer-Reviewed Original Research