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Evaluation of outcomes in cardiac surgical patients.
Validate statistical models of short and long term outcome of patients with IHD in non-academic databases.
Developing methods to present these evaluations so that they can be incorporated into patient care activities on an ongoing basis.
To understand the variability in the utilization of medical care services in ischemic heart disease (IHD).
Methods to link data from clinical and research databases to effectively use the data for both purposes.