Audit of a collaborative care model suggests patients with acute myocardial infarction are not disadvantaged by treatment in a rural hospital

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 115, Issue 1165, 2002, Pages

  Fearnley, David ^a   McLean, Jan ^a   Wilkins, Gerard ^b   Restieaux, Norma ^b   Nixon, Garry ^a  

^a Dunstan Hospital   (New Zealand)

^b DUNEDIN HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; RETEPLASE; STREPTOKINASE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RURAL HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEW ZEALAND; RURAL HEALTH; SURVIVAL RATE; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 17144438886     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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