PURPOSE: Whether patients with acute myocardial infarction who are treated by
cardiologists have better outcomes than patients treated by generalist physicians is …

OBJECTIVES. Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) continue to grow in number and in
their enrollment of Medicare recipients. They are also increasingly viewed as organizational …

PURPOSE: Older patients are less likely to receive guideline-recommended medical
therapies during acute myocardial infarction. However, it is unclear whether the lower rates …

Background Most studies of the epidemiology and treatment of acute myocardial infarction
(AMI) have focused on patients who experienced onset of their symptoms in the community …

Background The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently began reporting on quality of care for …

Background The objective of this study was to assess the characteristics of patients with
acute myocardial infarction transferred from community hospitals. The study was designed …

Objectives. We sought to determine the effect of specialty care on in-hospital mortality in
patients with acute myocardial infarction. Background. There has been increasing pressure …

Background: Randomized trials have shown that medical and interventional therapies
improve outcomes for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients. The extent to which …

Context: Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a common and important cause of admission to
US rural hospitals, as transport of patients with AMI to urban settings can result in …

Background Much attention has been directed to the use of medical resources and to
patients' outcomes in Canada as compared with the United States. We compared US and …