Acute myocardial infarction hospital admissions and deaths in England: a national follow-back and follow-forward record-linkage study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little information is available on how primary and comorbid acute myocardial infarction contribute to the mortality burden of acute myocardial infarction, the share of these deaths that occur during or after a hospital admission, and the reasons for hospital admission of those who died from acute myocardial infarction. Our aim was to fill in these gaps in the knowledge about deaths and hospital admissions due to acute myocardial infarction.

Methods

We used individually linked national hospital admission and mortality data for England from 2006 to 2010 to identify all primary and comorbid diagnoses of acute myocardial infarction during hospital stay and their associated fatality rates (during or within 28 days of being in hospital). Data were obtained from the UK S

SUBMITTER: Asaria P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6196770 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature