Why the study?
Does a collaborative educational intervention improve the rates of LDL-C measurement and appropriate lipid-lowering therapy prescription in patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction?
Population
904 Medicare patients discharged alive after a confirmed acute myocardial infarction.
Comparison
Collaborative educational intervention with… vs Preintervention baseline care in 1996.
Design
Cohort, nonrandomized
Follow-up
until hospital discharge
Authors
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May support hospital educational programs to boost inpatient lipid management in AMI; hypothesis-generating and requires randomized confirmation before practice change.
Does a collaborative educational intervention improve the rates of LDL-C measurement and appropriate lipid-lowering therapy prescription in patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction?
Active hospital-based programs and standard policies significantly increase routine LDL-C measurement and appropriate lipid-lowering therapy prescription in patients admitted for acute myocardial infarction.
Malach et al. (2001) studied this question.
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