Specialty of Ambulatory Care Physicians and Mortality among Elderly Patients after Myocardial Infarction
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- 21 November 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 347 (21), 1678-1686
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsa020080
Abstract
The outcome after myocardial infarction may be influenced by the type of physician providing ambulatory care.Keywords
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