Acute Myocardial Infarction and Congestive Heart Failure Outcomes at Specialty Cardiac Hospitals
Nallamothu BK, Wang Y, Cram P, Birkmeyer JD, Ross JS, Normand SL, Krumholz HM. Acute Myocardial Infarction and Congestive Heart Failure Outcomes at Specialty Cardiac Hospitals. Circulation 2007, 116: 2280-2287. PMID: 17967975, DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.107.709220.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCongestive heart failureRisk-standardized mortality ratesAcute myocardial infarctionStandardized mortality ratioSpecialty cardiac hospitalsCardiac hospitalGeneral HospitalMortality ratioMortality rateMyocardial infarctionCongestive heart failure outcomesHeart failure outcomesOutcomes of patientsProportion of facilitiesHeart failureNoncardiovascular diseasesLow prevalencePatient differencesMedicare dataPatientsHospitalFailure outcomesInfarctionOutcomesType of facility