Comparative effectiveness of revascularization strategies.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Questions persist concerning the comparative effectiveness of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG). The American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) collaborated to compare the rates of long-term survival after PCI and CABG.

Methods

We linked the ACCF National Cardiovascular Data Registry and the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database to claims data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the years 2004 through 2008. Outcomes were compared with the use of propensity scores and inverse-probability-weighting adjustment to reduce treatment-selection bias.

Results

Among patients 65 years of age or older who had two-vessel or three-vessel coronary artery dis

SUBMITTER: Weintraub WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4671393 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature