National Trends in Hospital Readmission Rates among Medicare Fee-for-Service Survivors of Mitral Valve Surgery, 1999–2010

• John A. Dodson ,

  * E-mail: John.Dodson@nyumc.org

  Affiliation Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Yun Wang,

  Affiliations Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Karthik Murugiah,

  Affiliation Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Kumar Dharmarajan,

  Affiliations Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Zack Cooper,

  Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Sabet Hashim,

  Affiliation Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Sudhakar V. Nuti,

  Affiliation Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Erica Spatz,

  Affiliations Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Nihar Desai,

  Affiliations Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Harlan M. Krumholz

  Affiliations Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, RWJ Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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