Comparative Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease: An National Cardiovascular Data Registry Research to Practice Project

Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2021 Aug;14(8):e010323. doi: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.120.010323. Epub 2021 Aug 10.

Eric A Secemsky^{1

2

3}, Neel Butala^{3

4}, Aishwarya Raja, Rohan Khera^{5

6}, Yongfei Wang^{5

6}, Jeptha P Curtis^{5

6}, Thomas M Maddox^{7

8}, Salim S Virani⁹, Ehrin J Armstrong¹⁰, Kendrick A Shunk¹¹, Ralph G Brindis¹², Deepak Bhatt^{3

13}, Robert W Yeh^{1

2

3}

¹ Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, Department of Medicine (E.A.S., N.B., A.R., R.W.Y.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.
² Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine (E.A.S., R.W.Y.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA.
³ Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (E.A.S., N.B., D.B., R.W.Y.).
⁴ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (N.B.).
⁵ Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (R.K., Y.W., J.P.C.).
⁶ Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT (R.K., Y.W., J.P.C.).
⁷ Division of Cardiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (T.M.M.).
⁸ Healthcare Innovation Lab, BJC HealthCare/Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO (T.M.M.).
⁹ Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Section of Cardiovascular Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (S.S.V.).
¹⁰ Division of Cardiology, Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, University of Colorado, Denver (E.J.A.).
¹¹ University of California and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco (K.A.S.).
¹² Department of Medicine & the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco (R.G.B.).
¹³ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Heart & Vascular Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (D.B.).

Abstract

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Keywords: Medicare; coronary artery disease; death; myocardial infarction; percutaneous coronary intervention.