Recent national trends in acute myocardial infarction hospitalizations in Medicare: shrinking declines and growing disparities
- Sacks, Naomi C.
- Ash, Arlene S.
- Ghosh, Kaushik
- Rosen, Amy K.
- Wong, John B.
- Cutler, David M.
- Rosen, Allison B.
Publication date
July 2015
DOI Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)Abstract
We looked at trends in AMI (acute myocardial infarction) hospitalization rates among elderly Medicare beneficiaries over the 10-year period 2002 to 2011, focusing specifically on whether the post-2007 declines are also more modest for blacks than for whites, potentially reflecting a growing gap in care
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