Why the study?
Does negative illness representation predict in-hospital complications in patients with acute myocardial infarction?
Does negative illness representation predict in-hospital complications in patients with acute myocardial infarction?
Negative illness representation measured early after acute myocardial infarction is a significant predictor of in-hospital complications.
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Negative illness representation was associated with post-AMI complications; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before clinical adoption.
Cherrington et al. (2004) studied this question.