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Heart failure and cardiomyopathies
Trends in left ventricular assist device use and outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries, 2004–2011

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  • Julianna F Lampropulos Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USASection of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Nancy Kim Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USASection of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Yun Wang Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USASection of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USADepartment of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Mayur M Desai Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USADepartment of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • José Augusto S Barreto-Filho Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USADivision of Cardiology, Federal University of Sergipe, Aracaju, SE, Brazil PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • John A Dodson Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Daniel L Dries Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Abeel A Mangi Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Harlan M Krumholz Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USASection of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USARobert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USADepartment of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Harlan M Krumholz; harlan.krumholz{at}yale.edu
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Lampropulos JF, Kim N, Wang Y, et al
Trends in left ventricular assist device use and outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries, 2004–2011
Open Heart 2014;1:e000109. doi: 10.1136/openhrt-2014-000109

Publication history

  • Received February 28, 2014
  • Revision received June 27, 2014
  • Accepted July 15, 2014
  • First published August 5, 2014.
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April 30, 2020

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