Cardiac revascularization in specialty and general hospitals.

regarding sever-ity of illness, mortality, and length of stay amongMedicare patients undergoing revascularization inspecialty hospitals could be generalized to an all-payer population. We used data for January 2002through September 2004 from Solucient’s all-payerProjected Inpatient Database, which contains infor-mation on more than 17 million discharges in theUnited States annually and has been used for theanalysis of patients with cardiac disease.