Comparison of Inhospital Mortality and Frequency of Coronary Angiography on Weekend Versus Weekday Admissions in Patients With Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction.
Publication/Presentation Date
9-1-2016
Abstract
Patients with myocardial infarction admitted on weekends have been reported to less frequently undergo invasive angiography and experience poorer outcomes. We used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database (2003 to 2011) to compare differences in all-cause inhospital mortality between patients admitted on a weekend versus weekday for an acute non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and to determine if rates and timing of coronary revascularization contributed to this difference. A total of 3,625,271 NSTEMI admissions were identified, of which 909,103 (25.1%) were weekend and 2,716,168 (74.9%) were weekday admissions. Admission on a weekend versus weekday was independently associated with lower rates of coronary angiography (odds ratio [OR] 0.88; 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.89 to 0.90; p
Volume
118
Issue
5
First Page
632
Last Page
634
ISSN
1879-1913
Published In/Presented At
Agrawal, S., Garg, L., Sharma, A., Mohananey, D., Bhatia, N., Singh, A., Shirani, J., & Dixon, S. (2016). Comparison of Inhospital Mortality and Frequency of Coronary Angiography on Weekend Versus Weekday Admissions in Patients With Non-ST-Segment Elevation Acute Myocardial Infarction. The American journal of cardiology, 118(5), 632–634. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjcard.2016.06.022
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
27381668
Department(s)
Fellows and Residents
Document Type
Article