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Survival enhancing indications for coronary artery bypass graft surgery in California

Zhongmin Li1*, Richard L Kravitz1, James P Marcin2, Patrick S Romano1, David M Rocke3, Timothy A Denton4, Ralph G Brindis5, Jian Dai3 and Ezra A Amsterdam6

Author Affiliations

1 Division of General Internal Medicine and Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

2 Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

3 Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA

4 High Desert Heart Institute, Victorville, CA, USA

5 Northern California Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA, USA

6 Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, USA

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BMC Health Services Research 2008, 8:257 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-8-257

Published: 16 December 2008

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Table 2. Hierarchical logistic regression on isolated CABG surgery survival enhancing indication, California, 2003–2004.

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Table 3. Comparison of patient clinical profile among hospital SEI groups.

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