Analysing current trends in care of acute myocardial infarction using PERFECT data

Annals of Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Häkkinen, Unto ^a   Hartikainen, Juha ^b   Juntunen, Merja ^a   Malmivaara, Antti ^a   Peltola, Mikko ^a   Tierala, Ilkka ^c  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Follow up studies; hospital cost; mortality; myocardial infarction; registries

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; DATA BASE; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES;

EID: 79957982028     PISSN: 07853890     EISSN: 13652060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07853890.2011.586363     Document Type: Article

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