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Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor Emeritus of Medicine
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2024 - Present
Medicine, Cardiology,
Medicine
Recent Publications
Relationship Between HCAHPS Scores and Survey Response Rate Is Linked to Hospital Size.
Journal Article J Patient Exp · December 2020 Patient experience is an important dimension of health care quality and is assessed using the standard Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey for inpatients. The HCAHPS scores may vary based on survey response rate ... Full text Link to item CiteAnalysis of geographic variations in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with aortic stenosis in North Carolina.
Journal Article Am J Cardiol · June 1, 2014 Despite advances in the treatment of aortic stenosis (AS), many patients with AS remain untreated. Barriers to accessing cardiovascular surgical care may play a role in this undertreatment. We sought to examine whether there are geographic variations in th ... Full text Link to item CiteDetailed analysis of polymer response to delivery balloon expansion of drug-eluting stents versus bare metal stents.
Journal Article EuroIntervention · July 2013 AIMS: We sought to describe the response of the polymer surface of drug-eluting stents (DES) to delivery balloon expansion, including quantitation of any resulting detached microparticles. METHODS AND RESULTS: We expanded the US Food and Drug Administratio ... Full text Link to item CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
Duke University ·
1975
M.D.