TABLE 3.

Interaction of patient benefit from cardiac catheterization (CC) referral between Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) risk score, and gender, age and patient preference

	Benefit likelihood, mean ± SE
	Low TIMI risk	Moderate TIMI risk	High TIMI risk
Sex/gender
Male	4.20±0.13*	4.16±0.12	4.97±0.11
Female	3.54±0.14*	4.33±0.13	4.88±0.11
Age, years
55	4.52±0.17*	4.13±0.15	4.98±0.13
75	3.22±0.16*	4.36±0.17	4.85±0.14
Patient preference
Agreeable for CC	5.00±0.23*	4.06±0.24*	4.88±0.17*
Disagreeable for CC	3.67±0.21*	3.93±0.2*	4.92±0.2*
No opinion	2.95±0.14*	4.74±0.13*	4.94±0.12*

What is the likelihood this patient would benefit from a CC procedure? Score: 1 = very unlikely to 5 = very likely.

^*P<0.01