Comparison of hospital variation in acute myocardial infarction care and outcome between Sweden and United Kingdom: population based cohort study using nationwide clinical registries.

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Published in BMJ on August 07, 2015

Authors

Sheng-Chia Chung1, Johan Sundström2, Chris P Gale3, Stefan James2, John Deanfield4, Lars Wallentin2, Adam Timmis5, Tomas Jernberg6, Harry Hemingway7, Swedish Web-System for Enhancement and Development of Evidence-Based Care in Heart Disease Evaluated According to Recommended Therapies/Register of Information and Knowledge about Swedish Heart Intensive care Admissions, National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research/Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project, CAardiovascular Disease Research Using Linked Bespoke Studies and Electronic Health Records

Author Affiliations

1: Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research and Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London NW1 2DA, UK s.chung@ucl.ac.uk.
2: Department of Medical Sciences, Cardiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden Uppsala Clinical Research Center, Uppsala, Sweden.
3: Cardiovascular Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
4: National Centre for Cardiovascular Prevention and Outcomes, London, UK.
5: National Institute for Health Research, Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Bart's Health London, London, UK.
6: Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Section of Cardiology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
7: Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research and Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London NW1 2DA, UK.

Associated clinical trials:

MI Mortality Risk and Between-hospital Risk Variation in the United Kingdom and Sweden | NCT01359033

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