Failure to Rescue, Hospital Volume, and In-Hospital Mortality After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
Ando T, Adegbala O, Villablanca P, Shokr M, Akintoye E, Briasoulis A, Takagi H, Schreiber T, Grines C, Afonso L. Failure to Rescue, Hospital Volume, and In-Hospital Mortality After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation. The American Journal Of Cardiology 2018, 122: 828-832. PMID: 30064862, DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2018.05.020.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsTranscatheter aortic valve implantationMajor perioperative complicationsAortic valve implantationVolume hospitalsHospital volumePatient mortalityPerioperative complicationsValve implantationTransarterial transcatheter aortic valve implantationNationwide Inpatient Sample databaseCo-morbidity indexGreater hospital volumeIn-Hospital MortalityPatient mortality ratesPercentage of womenHospital mortalityMajor complicationsTAVI procedureHighest quintileMean ageLowest quintileAdjusted ratesMortality rateFourth quintileDifferent hospitals