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Original Articles: Adult Cardiac

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Department of Health Policy, Management & Behavior, School of Public Health, State University of New York–Albany, One University Pl, Rensselaer, NY  12144-3456

(Email: elh03@health.state.ny.us).

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Li and associates [1] have examined the operative mortality rates (at discharge or within 30 days of operation) for elderly patients in California in 2003 to 2008 undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), including the effect of off-pump CABG (OPCAB) on these rates. Their findings are that risk-adjusted mortality decreased for patients aged 75 to 84 years and that there was no significant change for patients aged . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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