Declining mortality following acute myocardial infarction in the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System

Table 3 Adjusted mortality following AMI in VHA

		2004			2005			2006		Overall
	Obs	Pre	Adj	Obs	Pre	Adj	Obs	Pre	Adj	Obs
In-hospital	0.110	0.099	0.112	0.102	0.103	0.099	0.084	0.099	0.085	0.101
30-day	0.160	0.150	0.163	0.153	0.155	0.151	0.138	0.151	0.139	0.152
90-day	0.237	0.224	0.240	0.228	0.230	0.225	0.209	0.225	0.211	0.227
One-year	0.365	0.354	0.370	0.352	0.362	0.349	NA	NA	NA	0.359

*Adjustments made for age, heart rate, systolic pressure, persistent chest pain, hyperlipidemia, serum creatinine, elevation of initial troponin determination, medical history (heart failure, dementia, cancer or stroke within the past 5 years), and presentation at night. Adjusted mortality is Observed/Predicted * overall mortality for each measure. NA = not available, Obs = observed, Pre = predicted.
2004 through 2006* (N = 11,609)

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