American Heart Journal
Volume 148, Issue 5 , Pages 834-841 , November 2004

Effect of age on the use of evidence-based therapies for acute myocardial infarction

  • Chau T.T. Tran, PhD

      Affiliations

    • University of Toronto, Institute of Medical Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Andreas Laupacis, MD, MSc

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • University of Toronto, Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research program (Sunnybrook and Women's College site) and Department of Medicine and Health Policy Management and Evaluation, Division of General Internal Medicine Medicine Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Muhammad M. Mamdani, PharmD, MA, MPh

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • University of Toronto, Faculty of Pharmacy, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • ,
  • Jack V. Tu, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • University of Toronto, Clinical Epidemiology and Health Care Research program (Sunnybrook and Women's College site) and Department of Medicine and Health Policy Management and Evaluation, Division of General Internal Medicine Medicine Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Jack V. Tu, MD, PhD, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, G106-2075 Bayview Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5.

Received 6 June 2003 ,Accepted 6 April 2004.

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☆ Supported by an operating grant from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Ms Tran is supported by a Canadian Institutes for Health Research Doctoral Fellowship and was a recipient of the Heart and Stroke Foundation Fellowship (Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence). Dr Tu is supported by a Canada Research Chair in Health Services Research. The Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences is supported in part by a grant from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The results, conclusions and opinions are those of the authors and no endorsement by the Ministry, the Institute, or the Canadian Institutes for Health Research is intended or should be inferred.

PII: S0002-8703(04)00291-1

doi: 10.1016/j.ahj.2003.11.028

American Heart Journal
Volume 148, Issue 5 , Pages 834-841 , November 2004

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