The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 122, Issue 11 , Pages 975-976, November 2009

Medicare's New Regulations for Deep Vein Thrombosis as a “Never Event”: Wise or Worrisome?

  • Juwono L. Sutedjo, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester
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  • Roger K. Ng, MD

      Affiliations

    • University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester
    • ,
  • Gregory Piazza, MD

      Affiliations

    • Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
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  • Samuel Z. Goldhaber, MD

      Affiliations

    • Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass
    • Corresponding Author InformationRequests for reprints should be addressed to Samuel Z. Goldhaber, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis St., Boston, MA 02115

No abstract is available. To read the body of this article, please view the Full Text online.

 

 Funding: Dr. Goldhaber was supported, in part, by an unrestricted grant from Sanofi-Aventis. Drs. Sutedjo, Ng, and Piazza report no outside support for their work on this project.

 Conflict of Interest: None.

 Authorship: All authors had access to the data and participated in writing this manuscript.

PII: S0002-9343(09)00575-0

doi:10.1016/j.amjmed.2009.04.019

The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 122, Issue 11 , Pages 975-976, November 2009

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