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Carotid Endarterectomy
Findings from Gosford Hospital, Department of Vascular Surgery provide new insights into carotid endarterectomy
July 13th, 2009
Investigators publish new data in the report 'Statin therapy and carotid endarterectomy: a review of trends in New South Wales, 1990-2004.' According to recent research from Gosford, Australia, "The number of patients requiring carotid endarterectomy in our hospitals had been noted to be declining. Hence, our aim was to look at the numbers of carotid interventions in our State to see whether this trend was more pervasive and to look at trends in statin prescriptions over the same time-course." "We queried the New South Wales Department of Health Inpatients Statistics Collection database to determine the number of carotid interventions between 1 July 1990 and 30 June...
Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2009-07-13)
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