2008
Time-to-Reperfusion in Patients Undergoing Interhospital Transfer for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the U.S An Analysis of 2005 and 2006 Data From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry
Chakrabarti A, Krumholz HM, Wang Y, Rumsfeld JS, Nallamothu BK, Registry C. Time-to-Reperfusion in Patients Undergoing Interhospital Transfer for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the U.S An Analysis of 2005 and 2006 Data From the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. Journal Of The American College Of Cardiology 2008, 51: 2442-2443. PMID: 18565404, PMCID: PMC3733497, DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2008.02.071.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1999
Performance of the '100 top hospitals': what does the report card report?
Chen J, Radford MJ, Wang Y, Marciniak TA, Krumholz HM. Performance of the '100 top hospitals': what does the report card report? Health Affairs 1999, 18: 53-68. PMID: 10425843, DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.18.4.53.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionElderly AMI patientsThirty-day mortalityUse of aspirinLower readmission ratesHospital peer groupsTop hospitalsReadmission ratesAMI patientsSuperior clinical performanceHospital studyMyocardial infarctionHospital costsMedicare patientsBetter outcomesHospitalBetter carePatientsClinical performanceLower lengthReperfusionInfarctionAspirinStayMortality
1991
Reperfusion arrhythmias after thrombolysis. Electrophysiologic tempest, or much ado about nothing.
Krumholz HM, Goldberger AL. Reperfusion arrhythmias after thrombolysis. Electrophysiologic tempest, or much ado about nothing. CHEST Journal 1991, 99: 135s-140s. PMID: 2009810, DOI: 10.1378/chest.99.4.135s.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsThrombolytic therapyMyocardial infarctionAcute myocardial infarctionSignificant clinical interestReperfusion arrhythmiasSuccessful reperfusionMyocardial reperfusionIdioventricular rhythmClinical eventsVentricular tachyarrhythmiasNoninvasive markerAnimal studiesArrhythmiasConsistent markerReperfusionClinical interestInfarctionTherapyCurrent dataMarkersThrombolysisTachyarrhythmias