Rodrigo Costa Pereira Vieira, Milena Soriano Marcolino, Luis Gustavo Silva E Silva, Daniella Nunes Pereira, Bruno Ramos Nascimento, Alzira de Oliveira Jorge, Antonio Luiz P Ribeiro
BACKGROUND: The effective management of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is time-dependent. OBJECTIVES: To assess the impacts of the implementation of prehospital care on admission rates and mortality associated with AMI. METHODS: Retrospective, ecological study, which assessed data from the Brazilian Universal Health System, from all 853 municipalities of Minas Gerais, from 2008 to 2016. Excessive skewness of general and in-hospital mortality rates was smoothed using the empirical Bayes method...
September 23, 2022: Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia