Extent of the decrease of 28-day case fatality of hospitalized patients with acute myocardial infarction over 22 years: Epidemiological versus clinical view: The MONICA/KORA augsburg infarction registry

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 313-319

  Kuch, Bernhard ^a   Von Scheidt, Wolfgang ^a   Ehmann, Anja ^a   Kling, Birgitt ^a   Greschik, Claudia ^b,c   Hoermann, Allmut ^b   Meisinger, Christa ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Myocardial infarction; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; TROPONIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONER; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; GOLD STANDARD; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TIME; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; HEART INFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77949888408     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.108.831529     Document Type: Article

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