Response to Letter Regarding Article "Impact of Annual Operator and Institutional Volume on Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Outcomes: A 5-Year United States Experience (2005-2009)"

Circulation. 2015 Aug 4;132(5):e36-7. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.015221.

Authors

Apurva O Badheka¹, Nileshkumar J Patel², Peeyush Grover³, Vikas Singh⁴, Nilay Patel⁵, Shilpkumar Arora⁶, Ankit Chothani⁷, Kathan Mehta⁸, Abhishek Deshmukh⁹, Ghanshyambhai T Savani¹⁰, Achint Patel¹¹, Sidakpal S Panaich¹², Neeraj Shah¹³, Ankit Rathod¹⁴, Michael Brown¹², Tamam Mohamad¹², Raj R Makkar¹⁴, Theodore Schreiber¹², Cindy L Grines¹², Charanjit S Rihal⁹, Mauricio G Cohen⁴

Affiliations

¹ Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
² Staten Island University Hospital, Staten Island, NY.
³ UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA.
⁴ Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL.
⁵ Saint Peter's University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ.
⁶ Mount Sinai St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY.
⁷ MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC.
⁸ University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.
⁹ Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
¹⁰ Prince George's Hospital Center, Cheverly, MD.
¹¹ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
¹² Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, MI.
¹³ Lehigh Valley Health Network, Allentown, PA.
¹⁴ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA.

PMID: 26240270
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.015221

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Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Coronary Artery Disease / mortality*
Coronary Artery Disease / therapy*
Female
Hospital Mortality*
Hospitals, High-Volume / statistics & numerical data*
Hospitals, Low-Volume / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Male
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / mortality*