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 ResearchConceptsRisk-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
2014
National trends in stroke after acute myocardial infarction among Medicare patients in the United States: 1999 to 2010
Wang Y, Lichtman JH, Dharmarajan K, Masoudi FA, Ross JS, Dodson JA, Chen J, Spertus JA, Chaudhry SI, Nallamothu BK, Krumholz HM. National trends in stroke after acute myocardial infarction among Medicare patients in the United States: 1999 to 2010. American Heart Journal 2014, 169: 78-85.e4. PMID: 25497251, PMCID: PMC4824179, DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2014.06.011.Peer-Reviewed Original Research