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Article: Women Less Likely to Get Top-Quality Heart Attack Care, But Quality Efforts Help Both Men and Women Live Longer; GAP Study Shows Lower Mortality When Doctors, Nurses, Patients All Review Medications, Lifestyle Changes Before Patient Leaves Hospital.
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- AScribe Health News Service
- Article date:
- March 9, 2005
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Byline: University of Michigan Health System
ORLANDO, Fla., March 9 (AScribe Newswire) -- Efforts to improve the quality of post-heart attack care in hospitals are working - but they appear to be working better for men than for women, new research shows.
That finding, presented at the Annual Scientific Session of the American College of Cardiology, comes from an analysis of records from 2,857 heart attack survivors treated at Michigan hospitals before and after a major quality improvement effort took place. All were insured under Medicare.
The researchers, led by a team from the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center, found a significant ...