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Differences in Treatment Patterns and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction for Low- and High-Income Patients in 6 Countries by Bruce E. Landon; Laura A. Hatfield; Pieter Bakx; Amitava Banerjee; Yu-Chin Chen; Christina Fu; Michal Gordon; Renaud Heine; Nicole Huang; Dennis T. Ko; Lisa M. Lix; Victor Novack; Laura Pasea; Feng Qiu; Therese A. Stukel; Carin Uyl-de Groot; Lin Yan; Gabe Weinreb; Peter Cram is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Importance Differences in the organization and financing of health systems may produce more or less equitable outcomes for advantaged vs disadvantaged populations. We compared treatments and outcomes of older high- and low-income patients across 6 countries. ## Objective To determine whether treatment patterns and outcomes for patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction differ for low- vs high-income individuals across 6 countries. ## Design, Setting, and Participants Serial cross-sectional cohort study of all adults aged 66 years or older hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction from 2013 through 2018 in the US, Canada, England, the Netherlands, Taiwan, and Israel using population-representative administrative data. ## Exposures Being in the top and bottom quintile of income within and across countries. ## Main Outcomes and Measures Thirty-day and 1-year mortality; secondary outcomes included rates of cardiac catheterization and revascularization, length of stay, and readmission rates. ## Results We studied 289 376 patients hospitalized with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and 843 046 hospitalized with non-STEMI (NSTEMI). Adjusted 30-day mortali
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- Author
- Bruce E. Landon; Laura A. Hatfield; Pieter Bakx; Amitava Banerjee; Yu-Chin Chen; Christina Fu; Michal Gordon; Renaud Heine; Nicole Huang; Dennis T. Ko; Lisa M. Lix; Victor Novack; Laura Pasea; Feng Qiu; Therese A. Stukel; Carin Uyl-de Groot; Lin Yan; Gabe Weinreb; Peter Cram
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)