Hospital Care Varies Across Nation
No two hospitals are the same – in architecture, in decor, or even in ability to treat various diseases and illnesses. But one would assume that acute care of heart attacks and heart failure would be the same across the board.
Not so, according to a new study recently published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
In this study, researchers reviewed three years of experience (July 2005 to June 2008) of Medicare fee-for-service patients with heart failure and heart attack at almost 5,000 hospitals across the nation. Examining the records of nearly 600,000 heart attack admissions and more than 1 million heart …read more
