Response to letter regarding article, "Rates of and factors associated with infection in 200 909 Medicare implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implants: results from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry"

Circulation. 2015 Jun 2;131(22):e518. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.014727.

Authors

Jordan M Prutkin¹, Matthew R Reynolds², Haikun Bao³, Jeptha P Curtis³, Sana M Al-Khatib⁴, Saurabh Aggarwal⁵, Daniel Z Uslan⁶

Affiliations

¹ University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
² Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA.
³ Yale University, New Haven, CT.
⁴ Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
⁵ Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL.
⁶ David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

PMID: 26034091
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.014727

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Bacterial Infections / epidemiology*
Defibrillators, Implantable / microbiology*
Defibrillators, Implantable / statistics & numerical data*
Female
Humans
Male
Medicare / statistics & numerical data*
Registries*