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Differences in Treatment Patterns and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction for Low- and High-Income Patients in 6 Countries

Authors :
Landon, Bruce E.
Hatfield, Laura A.
Bakx, Pieter
Banerjee, Amitava
Chen, Yu Chin
Fu, Christina
Gordon, Michal
Heine, Renaud
Huang, Nicole
Ko, Dennis T.
Lix, Lisa M.
Novack, Victor
Pasea, Laura
Qiu, Feng
Stukel, Therese A.
Uyl-De Groot, Carin
Yan, Lin
Weinreb, Gabe
Cram, Peter
Epidemiology and Data Science
AII - Cancer immunology
Health Economics (HE)
Health Technology Assessment (HTA)
Source :
JAMA, 329(13), 1088-1097. American Medical Association, Landon, B E, Hatfield, L A, Bakx, P, Banerjee, A, Chen, Y-C, Fu, C, Gordon, M, Heine, R, Huang, N, Ko, D T, Lix, L M, Novack, V, Pasea, L, Qiu, F, Stukel, T A, Uyl-de Groot, C, Yan, L, Weinreb, G & Cram, P 2023, ' Differences in Treatment Patterns and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction for Low-and High-Income Patients in 6 Countries ', JAMA, vol. 329, no. 13, pp. 1088-1097 . https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2023.1699
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

ImportanceDifferences in the organization and financing of health systems may produce more or less equitable outcomes for advantaged vs disadvantaged populations. We compared treatments and outcomes of older high- and low-income patients across 6 countries.ObjectiveTo determine whether treatment patterns and outcomes for patients presenting with acute myocardial infarction differ for low- vs high-income individuals across 6 countries.Design, Setting, and ParticipantsSerial cross-sectional cohort study of all adults aged 66 years or older hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction from 2013 through 2018 in the US, Canada, England, the Netherlands, Taiwan, and Israel using population-representative administrative data.ExposuresBeing in the top and bottom quintile of income within and across countries.Main Outcomes and MeasuresThirty-day and 1-year mortality; secondary outcomes included rates of cardiac catheterization and revascularization, length of stay, and readmission rates.ResultsWe studied 289 376 patients hospitalized with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and 843 046 hospitalized with non-STEMI (NSTEMI). Adjusted 30-day mortality generally was 1 to 3 percentage points lower for high-income patients. For instance, 30-day mortality among patients admitted with STEMI in the Netherlands was 10.2% for those with high income vs 13.1% for those with low income (difference, −2.8 percentage points [95% CI, −4.1 to −1.5]). One-year mortality differences for STEMI were even larger than 30-day mortality, with the highest difference in Israel (16.2% vs 25.3%; difference, −9.1 percentage points [95% CI, −16.7 to –1.6]). In all countries, rates of cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention were higher among high- vs low-income populations, with absolute differences ranging from 1 to 6 percentage points (eg, 73.6% vs 67.4%; difference, 6.1 percentage points [95% CI, 1.2 to 11.0] for percutaneous intervention in England for STEMI). Rates of coronary artery bypass graft surgery for patients with STEMI in low- vs high-income strata were similar but for NSTEMI were generally 1 to 2 percentage points higher among high-income patients (eg, 12.5% vs 11.0% in the US; difference, 1.5 percentage points [95% CI, 1.3 to 1.8 ]). Thirty-day readmission rates generally also were 1 to 3 percentage points lower and hospital length of stay generally was 0.2 to 0.5 days shorter for high-income patients.Conclusions and RelevanceHigh-income individuals had substantially better survival and were more likely to receive lifesaving revascularization and had shorter hospital lengths of stay and fewer readmissions across almost all countries. Our results suggest that income-based disparities were present even in countries with universal health insurance and robust social safety net systems.

Subjects

Subjects :
General Medicine

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00987484
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
JAMA, 329(13), 1088-1097. American Medical Association, Landon, B E, Hatfield, L A, Bakx, P, Banerjee, A, Chen, Y-C, Fu, C, Gordon, M, Heine, R, Huang, N, Ko, D T, Lix, L M, Novack, V, Pasea, L, Qiu, F, Stukel, T A, Uyl-de Groot, C, Yan, L, Weinreb, G & Cram, P 2023, ' Differences in Treatment Patterns and Outcomes of Acute Myocardial Infarction for Low-and High-Income Patients in 6 Countries ', JAMA, vol. 329, no. 13, pp. 1088-1097 . https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2023.1699
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