Trends in time to invasive examination and treatment from 2001 to 2009 in patients admitted first time with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction or unstable angina in Denmark

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mårtensson, Solvej ^a   Gyrd Hansen, Dorte ^b   Prescott, Eva ^c   Andersen, Per Kragh ^d   Zwisler, Ann Dorthe Olsen ^e   Osler, Merete ^a,d  

^a Research Centre for Prevention and Health   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DENMARK; DISEASE REGISTRY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PROGNOSIS; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TREND STUDY; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DANISH CITIZEN; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MORTALITY RISK; TIME TO TREATMENT; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME; TRENDS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DENMARK; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT ADMISSION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892880327     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004052     Document Type: Article

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