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Heart Attack
Data on heart attack detailed by T.Y. Wang and co-authors
September 27th, 2009
"Recent initiatives have focused on reducing door-to-balloon (DTB) times among patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention. However, DTB time is only one of several important AMI care processes," scientists in the United States report. "It is unclear whether quality efforts targeted to a single process will facilitate concomitant improvement in other quality measures and outcomes. This study examined 101 hospitals (43 678 patients with AMI) in the Get With the Guidelines program. For each hospital, DTB time improvement from 2005 to 2007 was correlated with changes in composite Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
Source: Health Insurance Week (2009-09-27)
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