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A Comparison of Statistical Modeling Strategies for Analyzing Length of Stay after CABG Surgery

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A comparison of a Bayesian vs. a frequentist method for profiling hospital performance

scientific article published in February 2001

A comparison of several regression models for analysing cost of CABG surgery

scientific article

A multicenter study of the coding accuracy of hospital discharge administrative data for patients admitted to cardiac care units in Ontario

scientific article

A population-based analysis of the class effect of β-blockers after myocardial infarction

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A population-based study of the drug interaction between proton pump inhibitors and clopidogrel

scientific article

Achieving Quality Indicator Benchmarks and Potential Impact on Coronary Heart Disease Mortality

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Administrative Data Feedback for Effective Cardiac Treatment: AFFECT, a cluster randomized trial

scientific article (publication date: 20 July 2005)

Advantages and disadvantages of using artificial neural networks versus logistic regression for predicting medical outcomes.

scientific article published on November 1996

Age disparities in stroke quality of care and delivery of health services

scientific article published on 20 August 2009

Amiodarone-induced thyroid dysfunction: brand-name versus generic formulations

scientific article

An International Environmental Scan of Quality Indicators for Cardiovascular Care ⬇️

scientific article published on December 10, 2011

Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers for the Treatment of Heart Failure: A Class Effect?

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Anticoagulation after anterior myocardial infarction and the risk of stroke

scientific article

Anticoagulation in patients with heart failure

scientific article published on July 2009

Anxiety, depression, and health-related quality of life in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

scholarly article by Leo E. Akioyamen et al published June 2018 in Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Appropriateness of spironolactone prescribing in heart failure patients: a population-based study

scientific article

Are multiple biomarker testing strategies ready for prime time in heart failure?

scientific article published in September 2009

Aspirin use and outcomes in a community-based cohort of 7352 patients discharged after first hospitalization for heart failure

scientific article (publication date: 6 June 2006)

Assessing the Outcomes of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: How Many Risk Factors Are Enough? fn1fn1Dr. Naylor is supported by a Career Scientist Award from the Ontario Ministry of Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This work was supported by an o

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Assessing the association of appropriateness of coronary revascularization and clinical outcomes for patients with stable coronary artery disease

scientific article published on 10 October 2012

Association between lipid testing and statin therapy in acute myocardial infarction patients

scientific article published in September 2005

Association of blood pressure at hospital discharge with mortality in patients diagnosed with heart failure

scientific article published on 24 September 2009

Association of temporal trends in risk factors and treatment uptake with coronary heart disease mortality, 1994-2005.

scientific article published on May 2010

Authors' response to Apple editorial

scientific article published on 23 January 2007

Automated variable selection methods for logistic regression produced unstable models for predicting acute myocardial infarction mortality

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Best practices for developing cardiovascular quality indicators

scientific article published on 17 August 2013

Biology or bias: practice patterns and long-term outcomes for men and women with acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published in June 2002

Bundle branch block patterns and long-term outcomes in heart failure

scientific article published on 3 March 2010

Can the wrong statistic be bad for health? Improving the reporting of door-to-needle time performance in acute myocardial infarction

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Cardiac Report Cards

scientific article published on 01 December 2007

Cardiovascular Risk Factor Profiles of Recent Immigrants vs Long-term Residents of Ontario: A Multi-ethnic Study ⬇️

scientific article published on August 9, 2011

Cardiovascular outcomes after a change in prescription policy for clopidogrel

scientific article

Care and outcomes of patients newly hospitalized for heart failure in the community treated by cardiologists compared with other specialists

scientific article published on 23 June 2003

Class effects of statins in elderly patients with congestive heart failure: a population-based analysis

scientific article published on 25 October 2007

Clinical prediction rules

scientific article published on 01 June 1997

Comparing clinical and administrative data for profiling hospitals on postdischarge medication use by patients with acute myocardial infarction

scientific article

Comparing clinical data with administrative data for producing acute myocardial infarction report cards

Comparing hierarchical modeling with traditional logistic regression analysis among patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction: should we be analyzing cardiovascular outcomes data differently?

scientific article

Comparing invasive and noninvasive management strategies for acute myocardial infarction using administrative databases

Comparison of Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Fibrinolytic Therapy in ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Comparison of cardiovascular risk profiles among ethnic groups using population health surveys between 1996 and 2007.

scientific article

Comparison of coding of heart failure and comorbidities in administrative and clinical data for use in outcomes research

scientific article

Comparison of one-year outcome (death and rehospitalization) in hospitalized heart failure patients with left ventricular ejection fraction >50% versus those with ejection fraction <50%.

scientific article published on 9 May 2008

Comparison of processes of care and clinical outcomes for patients newly hospitalized for heart failure attended by different physician specialists

Comparison of provincial prescription drug plans and the impact on patients' annual drug expenditures

scientific article

Coronary artery bypass surgery: why don't the wealthy choose the best hospitals?

scientific article

Cost-Effectiveness of Specialized Multidisciplinary Heart Failure Clinics in Ontario, Canada

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Defibrillation testing at the time of ICD insertion: an analysis from the Ontario ICD Registry

scientific article published on December 2010

Deriving ethnic-specific BMI cutoff points for assessing diabetes risk

scientific article

Design and implementation of a population-based registry of Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs) in Ontario

scientific article published on 24 May 2008

Determinants of variations in coronary revascularization practices ⬇️

scientific article published on December 12, 2011

Developing risk-adjusted 30-day hospital mortality rates

scientific article published in December 2003

Development and validation of the Ontario acute myocardial infarction mortality prediction rules

scientific article

Differential effects of bundle branch block morphology in heart failure

scientific article published on 29 October 2010

Discriminating clinical features of heart failure with preserved vs. reduced ejection fraction in the community

scientific article

Diuretic dose and long-term outcomes in elderly patients with heart failure after hospitalization

scientific article published on August 2010

Do operator volumes relate to clinical outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention in the Canadian health care system?

scientific article published in April 2006

Does anemia impact hospital readmissions after coronary artery bypass surgery?

scientific article

Dynamic furosemide dose: A marker of adverse heart failure outcomes

ED triage of patients with acute myocardial infarction: predictors of low acuity triage

scientific article published on 25 March 2010

Early deaths in patients with heart failure discharged from the emergency department: a population-based analysis.

scientific article published on 27 January 2010

Ecological studies and cardiovascular outcomes research

scientific article published on December 2008

Economic evaluation of drug-eluting stents compared to bare metal stents using a large prospective study in Ontario

scientific article published on 31 March 2009

Effect of cardiac and noncardiac conditions on survival after defibrillator implantation

scientific article published on 11 June 2007

Effect of different angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors on mortality among elderly patients with congestive heart failure

scientific article

Effect of marriage on duration of chest pain associated with acute myocardial infarction before seeking care

scientific article

Effect of socioeconomic status on treatment and mortality after stroke

scientific article published on January 2002

Effect of time to electrocardiogram on time from electrocardiogram to fibrinolysis in acute myocardial infarction patients

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Effectiveness and safety of drug-eluting stents in Ontario.

scientific article published in October 2007

Effectiveness of implantable defibrillators for preventing arrhythmic events and death: a meta-analysis

scientific article

Effectiveness of preprocedural statin therapy on clinical outcomes for patients with stable coronary artery disease after percutaneous coronary interventions

scientific article published on 28 June 2011

Effectiveness of public report cards for improving the quality of cardiac care: the EFFECT study: a randomized trial

scientific article

Effectiveness of statins for secondary prevention in elderly patients after acute myocardial infarction: an evaluation of class effect

scientific article

Effects of contemporary troponin assay sensitivity on the utility of the early markers myoglobin and CKMB isoforms in evaluating patients with possible acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 23 January 2007

Effects of socioeconomic status on access to invasive cardiac procedures and on mortality after acute myocardial infarction

scientific article

Elevated C-reactive protein in acute coronary syndrome presentation is an independent predictor of long-term mortality and heart failure

scientific article published on 5 January 2007

Emergency Department Triage of Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients and the Effect on Outcomes

scientific article published on 21 January 2009

Estimating cardiovascular disease risk in diabetes – Authors' reply

scientific article published in The Lancet

Evaluating sex differences in population-based utilization of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: role of cardiac conditions and noncardiac comorbidities

scientific article

Evaluation of Early Complications Related to De Novo Cardioverter Defibrillator Implantation

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Factoring Socioeconomic Status Into Cardiac Performance Profiling for Hospitals

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Factors associated with the use of evidence-based therapies after discharge among elderly patients with myocardial infarction

scientific article published on October 2008

Factors explaining the under-use of reperfusion therapy among ideal patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 7 June 2006

Gender differences in outcomes after hospital discharge from coronary artery bypass grafting.

scientific article

Health Outcomes Categorized by Current and Previous Definitions of Acute Myocardial Infarction in an Unselected Cohort of Troponin-Naive Emergency Department Patients

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Heart failure in the ethnic minorities

scientific article published on March 2010

Hotline Editorials

scientific article published on 01 April 1998

How many arterial grafts are enough? A population-based study of midterm outcomes

scientific article published on 25 April 2006

How many patients with heart failure are eligible for cardiac resynchronization? Insights from two prospective cohorts

scientific article published on 16 August 2005

Hypertension guidelines in elderly patients: is anybody listening?

scientific article published in July 2002

ICD-10 adaptations of the Ontario acute myocardial infarction mortality prediction rules performed as well as the original versions

scientific article

IScore

scientific article published on 07 February 2011

Identifying priorities in methodological research using ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data: report from an international consortium

scientific article

Impact of an acute myocardial infarction report card in Ontario, Canada

scientific article published in April 2003

Impact of hospital nursing care on 30-day mortality for acute medical patients

Impact of picture archiving communication systems on rates of duplicate imaging: a before-after study

scientific article

Impact of renal insufficiency on short- and long-term outcomes after cardiac surgery

scientific article published in September 2004

Impact of restrictive prescription plans on heart failure medication use.

scientific article published in September 2009

Impact of the choice of benchmark on the conclusions of hospital report cards

scientific article published in December 2004

Impracticability of informed consent in the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network

scientific article published in April 2004

Improved outcomes with early collaborative care of ambulatory heart failure patients discharged from the emergency department

scientific article published on 18 October 2010

Incidence, predictors, and prognostic implications of hospitalization for late bleeding after percutaneous coronary intervention for patients older than 65 years

scientific article published on 23 March 2010

Increasing rates of angioplasty versus bypass surgery in Canada, 1994-2005.

scientific article published in November 2010

Indicators of quality of care for patients with acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on October 2008

Inequitable distribution of implantable cardioverter defibrillators in Ontario

scientific article published on January 2007

Inhaled corticosteroid therapy reduces the risk of rehospitalization and all-cause mortality in elderly asthmatics

scientific article published on 01 March 2001

Inpatient smoking-cessation counseling and all-cause mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction

International experience in stroke registries: lessons learned in establishing the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network

scientific article published in December 2006

Letter to the Editor

Life expectancy after an index hospitalization for patients with heart failure: a population-based study

scientific article published in February 2008

Lifetime analysis of hospitalizations and survival of patients newly admitted with heart failure

scientific article

Logistic regression had superior performance compared with regression trees for predicting in-hospital mortality in patients hospitalized with heart failure

scientific article

Long-Term Safety and Effectiveness of Drug-Eluting Stents for the Treatment of Saphenous Vein Grafts Disease

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

Long-term health outcomes associated with detectable troponin I concentrations

scientific article published on 4 January 2007

Long-term trends in use of and expenditures for cardiovascular medications in Canada

scientific article published on July 2009

Management and outcomes of transient ischemic attacks in Ontario

scientific article published on March 2004

Measuring And Reducing Waiting Times: A Cross-National Comparison Of Strategies

article published in 2007

Meta-analysis of the effects of endothelin receptor blockade on survival in experimental heart failure

scientific article published on October 2003

Missed opportunities in the secondary prevention of myocardial infarction: An assessment of the effects of statin underprescribing on mortality

scientific article published on 01 May 2006

Mitral Repair Versus Replacement for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

National trends in rates of death and hospital admissions related to acute myocardial infarction, heart failure and stroke, 1994-2004.

scientific article published on June 2009

Neighborhood income and stroke care and outcomes

scientific article

Obesity, lifestyle risk-factors, and health service outcomes among healthy middle-aged adults in Canada

scientific article

One-year outcome of patients after acute coronary syndromes (from the Canadian Acute Coronary Syndromes Registry)

scientific article (publication date: July 2004)

Outcome of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in a population-based study

scientific article

Outcome of revascularization procedures for peripheral arterial occlusive disease in Ontario between 1991 and 1998: a population-based study

scientific article published in August 2003

Paclitaxel versus sirolimus stents in diabetic and nondiabetic patients

scientific article published on 5 March 2009

Patient satisfaction and its relationship with quality and outcomes of care after acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 20 October 2008

Patterns of use of thienopyridine therapy after percutaneous coronary interventions with drug-eluting stents and bare-metal stents

scientific article published on 22 August 2009

Percutaneous coronary intervention with vs without on-site cardiac surgery backup: a systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 05 May 2011

Population rates of cardiac catheterization and yield of high-risk coronary artery disease

scientific article

Population-level incidence and risk factors for pulmonary toxicity associated with amiodarone

scientific article published on 23 June 2011

Potentially preventable strokes in high-risk patients with atrial fibrillation who are not adequately anticoagulated

scientific article published on 28 August 2008

Predicting Heart Failure Mortality From Administrative Data: Can It Be Improved? ⬇️

scientific article published on March 7, 2013

Predicting mortality among patients hospitalized for heart failure: derivation and validation of a clinical model

scientific article published in November 2003

Prediction of emergent heart failure death by semi-quantitative triage risk stratification

scientific article

Predictors of Short-Term Complications After Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Replacement

scientific article published on 15 February 2011

Predictors of normal coronary arteries at coronary angiography

scientific article published on 17 September 2013

Prevalence, predictors, and outcomes of primary nonadherence after acute myocardial infarction

scientific article

Processes and outcomes of care for diabetic acute myocardial infarction patients in Ontario: do physicians undertreat?

scientific article (publication date: May 2003)

Prognosis and Determinants of Survival in Patients Newly Hospitalized for Heart Failure

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Public versus private institutional performance reporting: what is mandatory for quality improvement?

scientific article

Quality of Care and Outcomes of Older Patients With Heart Failure Hospitalized in the United States and Canada

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Quality of Care of International and Canadian Medical Graduates in Acute Myocardial Infarction

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Quality of diabetes and hyperlipidemia screening before a first myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 6 June 2013

Quantifying the impact of survivor treatment bias in observational studies

scientific article published in December 2006

Reducing the global burden of stroke: INTERSTROKE

scientific article published in The Lancet

Regional Differences in Process of Care and Outcomes for Older Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients in the United States and Ontario, Canada

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Regression trees for predicting mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease: what improvement is achieved by using ensemble-based methods?

scientific article

Relation between age and cardiovascular disease in men and women with diabetes compared with non-diabetic people: a population-based retrospective cohort study

scientific article published in The Lancet

Relation between cardiac troponin I and mortality in acute decompensated heart failure

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Relation of disease pathogenesis and risk factors to heart failure with preserved or reduced ejection fraction: insights from the framingham heart study of the national heart, lung, and blood institute

scientific article published on 08 June 2009

Relationship between preventability of death after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and all-cause risk-adjusted mortality rates

scientific article published in June 2008

Rescue Angioplasty or Repeat Fibrinolysis After Failed Fibrinolytic Therapy for ST-Segment Myocardial Infarction

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Rescue percutaneous coronary interventions for failed fibrinolytic therapy in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A population-based study

scientific article published on 01 April 2011

Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Aspirin Use and Outcomes in a Community-Based Cohort of 7352 Patients Discharged After First Hospitalization for Heart Failure”

Response to Letter Regarding Article, “Early Deaths in Heart Failure Patients Discharged From the Emergency Department: A Population-Based Analysis”

Risk factors for death or stroke after carotid endarterectomy: observations from the Ontario Carotid Endarterectomy Registry

scientific article published on 2 October 2003

Risk-Treatment Mismatch in the Pharmacotherapy of Heart Failure

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Safety and Effectiveness of Drug-Eluting and Bare-Metal Stents for Patients With Off- and On-Label Indications

scientific article published on 01 May 2009

Safety and effectiveness of drug-eluting stents among diabetic patients: a propensity analysis

scientific article

Safety and efficacy of drug-eluting and bare metal stents: comprehensive meta-analysis of randomized trials and observational studies

scientific article

Selecting indicators for the quality of cardiac care at the health system level in Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries

scientific article published on September 2006

Sex differences in carotid endarterectomy outcomes: results from the Ontario Carotid Endarterectomy Registry

scientific article

Sex differences in the management and outcomes of Ontario patients with cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 21 December 2012

Simplified Canadian Definition for Familial Hypercholesterolemia

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Socioeconomic status, access to health care, and outcomes after acute myocardial infarction in Canada's universal health care system

scientific article published in July 2007

Standard admission orders can improve the management of acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on 16 May 2012

Standardized approaches to the investigation of syncope: Canadian Cardiovascular Society position paper

scientific article published in March 2011

Statin Therapy and Clinical Outcomes in Heart Failure: A Propensity-Matched Analysis

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Statins: is it safe and effective to use generic "equivalents"?

scientific article published on 11 October 2012

Stroke care delivery in institutions participating in the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network

scientific article published on 13 May 2004

Surname lists to identify South Asian and Chinese ethnicity from secondary data in Ontario, Canada: a validation study

scientific article

Temporal Trends in Cardiogenic Shock Treatment and Outcomes Among Ontario Patients With Myocardial Infarction Between 1992 and 2008

scientific article published on 28 June 2011

Temporal changes in emergency department triage of patients with acute myocardial infarction and the effect on outcomes

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Temporal trends in the use of percutaneous coronary intervention and coronary artery bypass surgery in New York State and Ontario.

scientific article published on 7 June 2010

Temporal trends in the utilization of echocardiography in Ontario, 2001 to 2009.

scientific article published on April 2013

The Canadian Stroke Quality of Care Study: establishing indicators for optimal acute stroke care

scientific article

The Impact of Under Coding of Cardiac Severity and Comorbid Diseases on the Accuracy of Hospital Report Cards

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

The Use of Fixed-and Random-Effects Models for Classifying Hospitals as Mortality Outliers: A Monte Carlo Assessment

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The average lifespan of patients discharged from hospital with heart failure

scientific article

The effect of a charted history of depression on emergency department triage and outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction ⬇️

scientific article published on February 28, 2011

The effect of privacy legislation on observational research

scientific article published on March 2008

The fall and rise of carotid endarterectomy in the United States and Canada

scientific article published in November 1998

The iScore Predicts Effectiveness of Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke

The iScore predicts poor functional outcomes early after hospitalization for an acute ischemic stroke

scientific article

The identification and development of Canadian coronary artery bypass graft surgery quality indicators

scientific article

The influence of surgical specialty training on the outcomes of elective abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery

scientific article published in March 2001

The potential economic impact of restricted access to angiotensin-receptor blockers ⬇️

scientific article published on January 24, 2011

The pre-hospital fibrinolysis experience in Europe and North America and implications for wider dissemination

scientific article published in August 2011

The use of quantile regression in health care research: a case study examining gender differences in the timeliness of thrombolytic therapy

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The use of the propensity score for estimating treatment effects: administrative versus clinical data

scientific article (publication date: 30 May 2005)

Time-related mortality for women after coronary artery bypass graft surgery: a population-based study

article by Veena Guru et al published April 2004 in The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Trends in heart failure outcomes and pharmacotherapy: 1992 to 2000.

scientific article published on May 2004

Trends in risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Canada: temporal, socio-demographic and geographic factors

scientific article published on 20 July 2009

Trends in the incidence and outcomes of heart failure in Ontario, Canada: 1997 to 2007.

scientific article

Trends in treatment and outcomes for acute stroke patients in Ontario, 1992-1998.

scientific article

Underuse of Inhaled Steroid Therapy in Elderly Patients With Asthma

scientific article published on 01 March 2001

Urgency of Carotid Endarterectomy for Secondary Stroke Prevention

scientific article published on 18 June 2009

Use of Cardiac Procedures and Outcomes in Elderly Patients with Myocardial Infarction in the United States and Canada

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Use of a neural network as a predictive instrument for length of stay in the intensive care unit following cardiac surgery

scientific article published in June 1993

Use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor therapy and dose-related outcomes in older adults with new heart failure in the community

scientific article

Use of evidence-based therapies after discharge among elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction

scientific article published on October 2008

Use of ezetimibe in the United States and Canada

scientific article published on 30 March 2008

Use of fibrates in the United States and Canada

scientific article published in March 2011

Use of interventional procedures for peripheral arterial occlusive disease in Ontario between 1991 and 1998: a population-based study

scientific article published in August 2003

Validity of the GRACE (Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events) acute coronary syndrome prediction model for six month post-discharge death in an independent data set.

scientific article published on 30 December 2005

Waiting times, revascularization modality, and outcomes after acute myocardial infarction at hospitals with and without on-site revascularization facilities in Canada

scientific article published in August 2003

Why Are Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Outcomes in Practice Different from Clinical Trials?

“Dose-dependent” Impact of Recurrent Cardiac Events on Mortality in Patients with Heart Failure

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