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Regional Differences in Process of Care and Outcomes for Older Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients in the United States and Ontario, Canada

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Previous comparisons of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) treatment between the United States and Canada are limited because they compared selected patients from randomized trials, used administrative data that lacked clinical detail, or did not consider regional differences in AMI treatment. METHODS AND RESULTS: We compared medication use, invasive cardiac procedure use, and 30-day risk-standardized mortality rates of 38,886 …

Authors

Ko DT; Krumholz HM; Wang Y; Foody JM; Masoudi FA; Havranek EP; You JJ; Alter DA; Stukel TA; Newman AM

Journal

Circulation, Vol. 115, No. 2, pp. 196–203

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer

Publication Date

January 16, 2007

DOI

10.1161/circulationaha.106.657601

ISSN

0009-7322