title: Early automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation: medical and economic considerations and inequities in health care reimbursement.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Winkle
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003645:Death, Sudden; D004554:Electric Countershock / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000191:economics; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics*; D019736:Prostheses and Implants / Q000191:economics*; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms / Q000191:economics*; D013610:Tachycardia / Q000191:economics / Q000628:therapy; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States