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The Frequency and Incremental Cost of Major Complications Among Medicare Beneficiaries Receiving Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators

Matthew R. Reynolds, MD, MSc^_*,_*, David J. Cohen, MD, MSc^_*, Aaron D. Kugelmass, MD, Phillip P. Brown, MD, Edmund R. Becker, PhD, Steven D. Culler, PhD and April W. Simon, MSN^||

^_* Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan
Centennial Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
^|| Cardiac Data Solutions, Atlanta, Georgia.

View larger version (17K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Frequency distribution of the number of complications for the entire study population.

View larger version (17K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Observed and adjusted average hospital cost for patients with (solid bars) and without complications (open bars).