Access to catheterisation facilities in patients admitted with acute coronary syndrome: multinational registry study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the relation between access to a cardiac catheterisation laboratory and clinical outcomes in patients admitted to hospital with suspected acute coronary syndrome.

Design

Prospective, multinational, observational registry.

Setting

Patients enrolled in 106 hospitals in 14 countries between April 1999 and March 2003.

Participants

28,825 patients aged > or = 18 years.

Main outcome measures

Use of percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass graft surgery, death, infarction after discharge, stroke, or major bleeding.

Results

Most patients (77%) across all regions (United States, Europe, Argentina and Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada) were admitted to hospitals with catheterisation facilities. As expect

SUBMITTER: Van de Werf F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC549651 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature