Thirty-Day Readmissions for Critical Limb Ischemia: Ready for a New Quality Metric?
Patrick M Looser1, Dmitriy N Feldman2
1From Division of Cardiology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York.
Circulation
|July 12, 2017
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