Table 2.
Interventions performed during admission for index myocardial infarction: non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction or ST-elevation myocardial infarction discharge diagnosis and primary care clopidogrel prescription within 3 months
| Characteristics | NSTEMI, n (%) |
STEMI, n (%) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No clopidogrel (n = 1288) | Clopidogrel (n = 2820) | No clopidogrel (n = 1085) | Clopidogrel (n = 1830) | |
| No reperfusion treatment | 1234 (95.8) | 2699 (95.7) | 172 (15.9) | 374 (20.4) |
| In-hospital thrombolytic treatment | 27 (2.1) | 44 (1.6) | 779 (71.8) | 865 (47.3) |
| Primary PCI | 0 (0.0) | 9 (0.3) | 30 (2.8) | 352 (19.2) |
| Other, blank, or unknown | 27 (2.1) | 68 (2.4) | 106 (9.6) | 239 (13.1) |
| No coronary intervention performed | 1119 (86.9) | 1966 (69.7) | 949 (87.5) | 855 (46.7) |
| PCI | 53 (4.1%) | 574 (20.4%) | 63 (5.8%) | 740 (40.4%) |
| CABG | 31 (2.4%) | 10 (0.4%) | 7 (0.6%) | 9 (0.5%) |
| Other, blank, or unknown | 85 (6.6%) | 270 (9.6%) | 66 (6.1%) | 226 (12.3%) |