Early discharge after acute myocardial infarction in the current clinical practice. Community data from the AMI-Florence Registry, Italy

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-63

  Barchielli, Alessandro ^a   Balzi, Daniela ^a   Marchionni, Niccolò ^b   Carrabba, Nazario ^c   Margheri, Massimo ^b   Santoro, Giovanni M ^d   Olivotto, Iacopo ^c   Buiatti, Eva ^e  

^a Local Health Unit 10   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e Tuscany Regional Health Agency   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Early discharge; Population based registry; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY REPERFUSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART REINFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGISTER; REVASCULARIZATION; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33751247616     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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