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

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Figure 1 Frequency distribution of the number of complications for the entire study population.
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Figure 2 Observed and adjusted average hospital cost for patients with (solid bars) and without complications (open bars).
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