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Metadata item type:![]() | Indicator |
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Indicator type:![]() | Indicator |
Short name:![]() | 3.5-Mortality rates for hospitalised acute myocardial infarction (AMI), 2016 |
METEOR identifier:![]() | 657036 |
Registration status:![]() | Health!, Standard 17/08/2017 |
Description:![]() | Proportion of hospitalised AMI events among patients aged 35 and over that ended in death, by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander status. |
Rationale:![]() | This measure falls within Priority area 3 of the Better Cardiac Care project—guideline-based therapy for acute coronary syndrome (ACS). This priority area is based on the premise that all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with ACS should receive guideline-based therapy. ACS is a broad spectrum of acute clinical presentations, ranging from unstable angina to AMI. The National Heart Foundation of Australia/Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes are described in Aroney et al. (2006), Aroney et al. (2008) and Chew et al. (2011). AMI refers to a heart attack that has caused some death of heart muscle. Improvements in treatment for people with AMI reduce the mortality rate over both the short and long term (Ong & Weeramanthri 2000; Tideman et al. 2014).
Full reporting against this indicator is not possible using available data. Specifically, data are not available on 30-day and 12-month mortality following hospitalisation. The reported measure excludes people aged under 35 due to small numbers. |
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