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The current practice of intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation: results from the Benchmark Registry

James J. Ferguson, III, MD, FACC^*,*, Marc Cohen, MD, FACC, Robert J. Freedman, Jr, MD, FACC, Gregg W. Stone, MD, FACC, Michael F. Miller, PhD^||, Debra L. Joseph, BSN^¶ and E. Magnus Ohman, MD, FACC^#

^* Texas Heart Institute, Houston, Texas, USA
Hahnemann University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Tulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Cardiology Research Foundation, Washington, DC, USA
^|| M. F. Miller Statistical Services, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, USA
^¶ Datascope Corp., Fairfield, New Jersey, USA
^# University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

View larger version (22K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Data handling in the Benchmark Registry. Data from consecutive patients are collected at participating centers, entered into a computer on-site and subsequently transferred to a central storage facility. Individual site and overall registry data are available to the participants, as well as customized queries of the database.