Erschienen in:
01.03.2011 | Editorial
Performance figures of invasive cardiology in Germany 2006 and 2007 focussing on coronary artery disease
verfasst von:
Dieter Horstkotte, Marcus Wiemer, Frank van Buuren
Erschienen in:
Clinical Research in Cardiology
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Ausgabe 3/2011
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Performance figures of the catheter laboratories (CL) operated in Germany have been published recently for the years 2006 [
6] and 2007 [
7]. The 25th anniversary report will follow shortly. Since 1985, these annual reports are, the only valid sources of information reporting character and frequency of diagnostic and therapeutic cardiac procedures performed in Europe’s largest medical community [
9,
12]. Governmental registries that came up only in the last 10 years (“BQS” for inpatient procedures and “Quik” for outpatient procedures), provided incomplete data sets in their first years as no complete documentations were acquired and the number of requested items was considerably low [
1,
18,
32]. …