Does Aggressive Care Following Acute Myocardial Infarction Reduce Mortality? Analysis with Instrumental Variables to Compare Effectiveness in Canadian and United States Patient Populations

Health Services Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6 I, 2003, Pages 1423-1440

  Beck, Christine A ^b,c   Penrod, John ^b   Gyorkos, Theresa W ^b,c   Shapiro, Stan ^c   Pilote, Louise ^a,b  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative database; Canada; Confounding bias; Instrumental variables; Mortality; Myocardial infarction; United States

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0347020822     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2003.00186.x     Document Type: Article

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