In this 5-year review covering multiple centers in Australia and New Zealand, the overall major complication rate related to new implanation of a pacemaker or ICD was 8.2%. Among hospitals performing implants there was a 3-fold range in the incidence of complications, indicating important variations in care quality.
You are here:
Institutional Variation in Quality of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device Implantation: A Cohort Study
Submitted by: Mark Ferguson
Source: Annals of Internal Medicine
Keywords:
Author(s): Isuru Ranasinghe, Clementine Labrosciano, Dennis Horton, Anand Ganesan, Jeptha P. Curtis, Harlan M. Krumholz, Andrew McGavigan, Sadia Hossain, Tracy Air, Saranya Hariharaputhiran
