A community-wide perspective into changing trends in the utilization of diagnostic and interventional procedures in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction

American Heart Journal

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 594-605

  Hahn, Jessica ^a   Lessard, Darleen ^a   Yarzebski, Jorge ^a   Goldberg, Jordan ^a   Pruell, Sean ^a   Spencer, Frederick A ^a,c   Gore, Joel M ^a   Goldberg, Robert J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT INFORMATION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREND STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

EID: 33947392193     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2007.01.034     Document Type: Article

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