Use of Hospital Episode Statistics to investigate abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery
โ Scribed by A. Johal; D. Mitchell; T. Lees; D. Cromwell; J. van der Meulen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Volume
- 99
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
- DOI
- 10.1002/bjs.7772
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Endovascular techniques are now available for treatment of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) using various stent-graft systems. The delivery system of these device's call for large, 16 and 22 Fr sheaths, requiring open surgical femoral artery exposure to introduce and remove. We describe a
## Abstract ## Background The aim was to assess the relationship between hospital volume and outcome after abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) surgery in the UK. ## Methods Hospital Episode Statistics (2000โ2005) were classified as elective, urgent or ruptured AAA repair. Analysis was by modelling o