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Acute myocardial infarction hospitalization and treatment : areas with a high percentage of First Nations identity residents / by Helen Ke Wei-Randall, Mélanie Josée Davidson, Jing Jin, Sushma Mathur and...: CS82-003/2013-7-1E-PDF

"Deaths from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are higher among First Nations people than among non-Aboriginal Canadians. Hospital interventions often involve revascularization: percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Because patients' ethnicity is not reported consistently in hospital records, no national information is available about AMI hospitalizations or the use of such procedures among First Nations people. This study uses an area-based approach to identify AMI hospital patients who live in Dissemination Areas with relatively high percentages of First Nations residents. Within the AMI patient cohort, procedures received during the hospital admission were identified. …"--Abstract, page 2.

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Department/Agency
  • Statistics Canada, issuing body.
TitleAcute myocardial infarction hospitalization and treatment : areas with a high percentage of First Nations identity residents / by Helen Ke Wei-Randall, Mélanie Josée Davidson, Jing Jin, Sushma Mathur and Lisa Oliver.
Series title
  • Health reports, 1209-1367 ; v. 24, no. 7, [1]
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
Other language editions[French]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • Issued also in French under title: Hospitalisation et traitement à la suite d'un infarctus aigu du myocarde : régions à fort pourcentage de Premières Nations.
  • ISSN of series supplied from ISSN Portal.
  • "Component of Statistics Canada catalogue no. 82-003-X, Health Reports."
  • "Article."
  • "Research article."
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 9).
Publishing information
  • [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, July 2013.
  • ©2013
Author / Contributor
  • Wei-Randall, Helen Ke, author.
Description1 online resource (pages 3-10) : illustration.
Catalogue number
  • CS82-003/2013-7-1E-PDF
Departmental catalogue number82-003-X
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