Recent declines in hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction for medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries: Progress and continuing challenges

Circulation

Volumn 121, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1322-1328

  Chen, Jersey ^a   Normand, Sharon Lise T ^b   Wang, Yun ^c   Drye, Elizabeth E ^c   Schreiner, Geoffrey C ^c   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Infarction; Vital statistics

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949825521     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.862094     Document Type: Article

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