Temporal analysis of acute myocardial infarction in Ontario, Canada

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 841-845

  Vrbova, Linda ^a   Crighton, Eric J ^b   Mamdani, Muhammad ^a   Moineddin, Rahim ^a,c   Upshur, Ross E G ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Hospital admissions; Seasonality; Time series

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ONTARIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 25844520756     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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