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Short-Term Death Rates in Patients Hospitalized With an Initial Acute Myocardial Infarction
| Study Period
|
In-Hospital Death Rates
|
30-Day Death Rates
|
|---|---|---|
| 1975/1978 | 5.4 % | 6.6 % |
| 1981/1984 | 4.4 % | 4.4 % |
| 1986/1988 | 3.0 % | 3.6 % |
| 1990/1991 | 1.0 % | 1.0 % |
| 1993/1995 | 1.2 % | 1.6 % |
| 1997/1999 | 3.2 % | 3.6 % |
| 2001/2003 | 2.5 % | 2.9 % |
| 2005 | 2.9 % | 2.9 % |
