Why the study?
Can a clinical prognostic stratification scheme identify patients at high risk of cardiac mortality in the early posthospital phase of myocardial infarction?
Population
518 patients ≤65 years of age discharged from the hospital following a definite or probable acute myocardial…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
four months
Authors
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Supports post-MI risk stratification for monitoring; leaves open whether targeted interventions improve survival.
Can a clinical prognostic stratification scheme identify patients at high risk of cardiac mortality in the early posthospital phase of myocardial infarction?
A simple clinical stratification scheme using angina history, CCU hemodynamics, and ventricular ectopy can identify a high-risk subset of post-MI patients who account for nearly half of early post-discharge cardiac deaths.
Moss et al. (1976) studied this question.
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