Hospital Resources and Myocardial Infarction Case Fatality. The IBERICA Study
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[Hospital resources and myocardial infarction case fatality. The IBERICA study].
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES To determine the proportion of patients with myocardial infarction (MI) not admitted to a coronary care unit (CCU), the variables associated with admission into a CCU, and whether admission to a CCU, and the availability of coronary angiography in the same hospital, were associated with 28-day case fatality. PATIENTS AND METHOD Population-based registry of MI in pa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Española de Cardiología (English Edition)
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1885-5857
DOI: 10.1016/s1885-5857(06)60627-0