Interventional Research
Mostrando 25-28 de 28 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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25. When All Else Is Done: The Challenge of Improving Antemortem Care
Recent findings from the Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments (SUPPORT) reveal that Americans are receiving antemortem care that is highly technical and interventional, but poorly consistent with patients' wishes. A growing body of research in palliative medicine describes a manner of care that restores the possi
Physicians Postgraduate Press.
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26. Racial/ethnic differences in health care utilization of cardiovascular procedures: a review of the evidence.
Studies based on a variety of primary data sets have consistently demonstrated that African Americans are about half as likely as whites to receive interventional therapy for coronary artery disease. Neither disease severity per se nor access to hospitals performing these procedures accounts for this finding. Likewise, available measures of income and abilit
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27. Provision of services for the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. Fourth report of a Joint Cardiology Committee of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
The principal conclusions of the fourth report of the Joint Cardiology Committee are: 1 Cardiovascular disease remains a major cause of death and morbidity in the population and of utilisation of medical services. 2 Reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease is feasible, and better co-ordination is required of strategies most likely to be effective. 3 P
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28. Thrombin and antithrombotic therapy in interventional cardiology.
Despite developments in percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, the success of this treatment method remains clouded by early and late reocclusion. Increased experience, advances in technology, and the introduction of adjunctive devices have contributed to a higher procedural success rate (90% to 95%) and to a lower complication rate (4% to 5%), in s