Readmissions after carotid artery revascularization in the Medicare population: a word of caution
1Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, and the Departments of Radiology and Surgery, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
|April 11, 2015
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