Trends in Patient Characteristics and Outcomes of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in the 2000 to 2012 Medicare Population

March 13, 2016

Submitted by: Arie Blitz

Source: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(16)00019-9/abstract

Keywords:

Cardiac

Author(s): Christian McNeely, Stephen Markwell, Christina Vassileva

The authors reviewed the Medicare database to analyze the trends in CABG surgery within this population over a 12-year period. Trends in the Medicare population included the following:

CABG volume decreased by 46%.
An increasing percentage of CABGs were with fewer grafts (

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