Trends and predictors of rehospitalisation following an acute coronary syndrome: Report from the Australian and New Zealand population of the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE)

Heart

Volumn 98, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 1728-1731

  Sangu, Prashanthi V ^a   Ranasinghe, Isuru ^a   Costa, Bernadette Aliprandi ^a   Devlin, Gerard ^b   Elliot, John ^c   Lefkovitz, Jeffery ^d   Brieger, David ^a  

^a ANZAC Research Institute   (Australia)

^b WAIKATO HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^c CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^d ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEATH; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TREND STUDY;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; NEW SOUTH WALES; NEW ZEALAND; PATIENT READMISSION; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84869151228     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302532     Document Type: Article

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