A comparison of in-hospital acute myocardial infarction management between Portugal and the United States: 2000

A comparison of in-hospital acute myocardial infarction management between Portugal and the United States: 2000–2010

Published:2017-07-28 Issue:5 Volume:29 Page:669-678
ISSN:1353-4505
Container-title:International Journal for Quality in Health Care
language:en
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Author:

Lobo Mariana F¹,Azzone Vanessa²,Azevedo Luís Filipe¹³,Melica Bruno¹⁴,Freitas Alberto¹³,Bacelar-Nicolau Leonor⁵,Rocha-Gonçalves Francisco N¹⁶,Nisa Cláudia¹,Teixeira-Pinto Armando⁷,Pereira-Miguel José⁵,Resnic Frederic S⁸⁹,Costa-Pereira Altamiro¹³,Normand Sharon-Lise²¹⁰

Affiliation:

1. Center for Health Technology and Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Plácido da Costa, s/n 4200-450 Porto, Portugal

2. Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA

3. Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Plácido da Costa, s/n 4200-450 Porto, Portugal

4. Serviço de Cardiologia, Unidade de Diagnóstico e Intervenção Cardiovascular, Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia e Espinho, R. Conceição Fernandes 1079, Vila Nova de Gaia Portugal

5. Institute of Preventive Medicine and Public Health and ISAMB – Institute of Environmental Health, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Professor Egas Moniz, 1649-028 Lisbon, Portugal

6. Portuguese Institute of Oncology Porto, R. Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida 62, 4200-162 Porto, Portugal

7. School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Edward Ford Building (A27), The University of Sidney, NSW 2006, Australia

8. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, MA 01805, USA

9. Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA

10. Department of Biostatistics, Havard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Funder

Harvard Medical School – Portugal Program

National Health and Medical Research Council

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health Policy,General Medicine

Link

http://academic.oup.com/intqhc/article-pdf/29/5/669/20598588/mzx092.pdf

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