Quality, not volume, determines outcome of coronary artery bypass surgery in a university-based community hospital network.

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• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

• Publication date

  2012-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2011.10.043PMID 22104669
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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