Publications by authors named "Karen L Farrell"
Objectives: Using a large, current, regional registry of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), we identified risk factors for postprocedure vascular complications and developed a scoring system to estimate individual patient risk.
Background: A vascular complication (access-site injury requiring treatment or bleeding requiring transfusion) is a potentially avoidable outcome of PCI.
Methods: Data were collected on 18,137 consecutive patients undergoing PCI in northern New England from January 1997 to December 1999.