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Trends in Coronary Revascularization Procedures Among Medicare Beneficiaries Between 2008 and 2012

Sunday, December 28, 2014

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Source Name: Circulation

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Culler SD, Kugelmass AD, Brown PP, Reynolds MR, Simon AW.

This is a retrospective study looking at 2,768,007 Medicare beneficiaries in the US undergoing myocardial revascularization between 2008 and 2012. From a surgical point of view it is interesting to see that the proportion of CABG among all revascularization procedures declined from 24.8% in 2008 to 23.2% in 2012. The number of centers performing less than 100 CABG procedures per year increased from 23.4% of the total number of centers performing CABG in 2008 to 29.5% in 2012, and the proportion of centers performing more than 500 CABG procedures per year declined from 5.1% in 2008 to 3.2% in 2012. In hospital mortality for isolated CABG varied between 2.27 and 2.56%.

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