title: Hospital Readmission as a Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement Performance Measure: Too Soon?
authors.affiliation: From the Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center and the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC.
authors.forename: Rajesh V
authors.initials: RV
authors.lastname: Swaminathan
authors.affiliation: From the Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center and the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC. sunil.rao@duke.edu.
authors.forename: Sunil V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Rao
mesh_terms: D001021:Aortic Valve / Q000601:surgery; D001024:Aortic Valve Stenosis / Q000601:surgery; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D019918:Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation; D006801:Humans; D010359:Patient Readmission; D012307:Risk Factors; D065467:Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: Editorials; aortic valve stenosis; heart failure; medicare; outcome and process assessment