A longitudinal assessment of coronary interventional program quality: a report from the American College of Cardiology-National Cardiovascular Data Registry.

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Published in JACC Cardiovasc Interv on February 01, 2009

Authors

Lloyd W Klein1, Paul Kolm, Xin Xu, Ronald J Krone, H Vernon Anderson, John S Rumsfeld, Ralph G Brindis, William S Weintraub

Author Affiliations

1: Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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