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Highlights the need to understand and prevent deaths occurring after hospital discharge but within 30 days of PCI, which may have distinct risk factors compared to in-hospital mortality.
In-hospital death after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is widely used as a quality metric for PCI by the National Cardiovascular Data Registry and state-level registries.1 The risk factors for in-hospital mortality after PCI are well defined; however, a substantial proportion of deaths within 30 days of undergoing PCI occur after discharge from the hospital, and there is a need to understand the cause of these deaths and, ultimately, prevent them. It is possible that the risk of death after discharge may be associated with its own distinct risk factors.
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