Hospital Readmission as a Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Performance Measure: Too Soon?

Affiliations

¹ From the Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center and the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC.
² From the Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center and the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC. sunil.rao@duke.edu.

Editorial

Rajesh V Swaminathan et al. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2017 Jan.

. 2017 Jan;10(1):e004752.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.116.004752.

¹ From the Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center and the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC.
² From the Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center and the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC. sunil.rao@duke.edu.

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Keywords: Editorials; aortic valve stenosis; heart failure; medicare; outcome and process assessment.

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Thirty-Day Readmissions After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in the United States: Insights From the Nationwide Readmissions Database.
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