UMass Chan Medical School Faculty Publications
Title
Recent national trends in acute myocardial infarction hospitalizations in Medicare: shrinking declines and growing disparities
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Quantitative Health Sciences
Publication Date
2015-07-01
Document Type
Letter to the Editor
Subjects
African Americans; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; European Continental Ancestry Group; Female; Healthcare Disparities; Hospitalization; Humans; Male; Medicare; Multivariate Analysis; Myocardial Infarction; Poisson Distribution; United States
Disciplines
Clinical Epidemiology | Epidemiology | Health Services Administration
Abstract
We looked at trends in AMI (acute myocardial infarction) hospitalization rates among elderly Medicare beneficiaries over the 10-year period 2002 to 2011, focusing specifically on whether the post-2007 declines are also more modest for blacks than for whites, potentially reflecting a growing gap in care.
DOI of Published Version
10.1097/EDE.0000000000000298
Source
Epidemiology. 2015 Jul;26(4):e46-7. doi: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000298. Link to article on publisher's site
Related Resources
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)
PubMed ID
25924109
Repository Citation
Sacks NC, Ash AS, Ghosh K, Rosen AK, Wong JB, Cutler DM, Rosen AB. (2015). Recent national trends in acute myocardial infarction hospitalizations in Medicare: shrinking declines and growing disparities. UMass Chan Medical School Faculty Publications. https://doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0000000000000298. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/faculty_pubs/964