PMID: 15376734Sep 21, 2004Paper

Acute coronary syndromes and other forms of coronary heart disease in the National Health Service, 1997-2001

Revista Portuguesa De Cardiologia : Orgão Oficial Da Sociedade Portuguesa De Cardiologia = Portuguese Journal of Cardiology : an Official Journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology
José GíriaEvangelista Rocha

Abstract

1) To study the frequency and distribution of acute coronary syndromes and other forms of ischemic heart disease (IHD) as the cause of hospitalization in the Portuguese National Health Service (NHS); 2) To compare mortality from the various forms of IHD by gender in NHS hospitals in the period 1997-2001. Annual in-patient data based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) sent by each NHS hospital to the Informatics and Financial Management Institute (IGIF) using ICD-9-CM codes. After quality control of the data by IGIF, the Statistics Department of the Directorate-General of Health (GDS) studied the distribution of codes 410-414 by age group and gender. Measures of central tendency were studied and the Student's t test was used to evaluate the significance of differences between men and women in the distribution of IHD in-patients. Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (410) caused 7618 hospitalizations (5271 male, 2347 female) in 1997. In 2001 the number was 10,047 (6693 male, 3354 female). Other acute and subacute forms of IHD (411) were 4005 (2522 male, 1483 female) and 4100 (2618 male, 1482 female) respectively during 1997 and 2001. Angina pectoris (413) and other forms of chronic ischemic heart disease (414) were 2479 (1543 male, ...Continue Reading

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