Are district general hospital patients with unstable angina at a disadvantage?

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 79, Issue 928, 2003, Pages 93-98

  Miller, C ^b   Lipscomb, K ^c   Curzen, Nicholas ^a  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL BOLTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY CARE UNIT; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT MONITORING; REVASCULARIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CARDIOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PLATELET GLYCOPROTEIN GPIIB-IIIA COMPLEX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 0345549532     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pmj.79.928.93     Document Type: Article

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