Cardiac intervention rates for older patients with acute myocardial infarction in the United States and Ontario, 2003-2013: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous work showed lower cardiac intervention rates for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in Ontario than in the United States. We assessed whether Ontario's efforts to improve access to rapid percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for AMI were associated with improved timeliness of care and whether this closed the gap between the 2 jurisdictions.

Methods

In this retrospective cohort study, we followed adults aged 66-99 years in the US and Ontario for 30 days after admission for incident AMI between 2003 and 2013 using health administrative data from both countries. We calculated the proportion of patients who received cardiac catheterization, PCI and coronary artery bypass grafting on the day of and within 30 days of admission overall and accord

SUBMITTER: Yasaitis LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7850174 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature