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Variation in Carotid Endarterectomy Mortality in Medicare Pop, Trial Hospitals, Vol & Pt Charact JAMA 279:1278-1281, Wennberg,D.E.,et al, 1998 See this aricle in Pubmed Article Abstract Medicare patients'perioperative mortality following CEA is substantially higher than that reported in the trials,even in those institutions that participated in the randomized studies.Caution is advised in translating the efficacy of carefully controlled studies of CEA to effectiveness in everyday practice.

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