Table 1.
Proportion of deaths in the invasive management and non-invasive management groups, according to percentiles of the propensity score for the study population who survived up to 3 days from peak troponin concentration
| Propensity score upper limit |
Invasive management group (n=836) |
Non-invasive management group (n=1039) |
Hazard ratio (95% CI) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of patients | Number of deaths (%) | Number of patients | Number of deaths (%) | |||
| 99 to 100 | 1·0000 | 19 | 3 (16%) | 0 | 0 | .. |
| 95 to <99 | 0·9936 | 73 | 20 (27%) | 2 | 0 | .. |
| 90 to <95 | 0·9633 | 89 | 23 (26%) | 4 | 0 | .. |
| 75 to <90 | 0·9292 | 232 | 53 (23%) | 49 | 14 (29%) | 0·64 (0·34–1·18) |
| 50 to <75 | 0·7742 | 294 | 85 (29%) | 176 | 69 (39%) | 0·61 (0·44–0·85) |
| 25 to <50 | 0·4154 | 117 | 41 (35%) | 352 | 177 (50%) | 0·49 (0·35–0·69) |
| 10 to <25 | 0·0987 | 12 | 6 (50%) | 268 | 168 (63%) | 0·72 (0·32–1·63) |
| 5 to <10 | 0·0178 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 62 (65%) | .. |
| 1 to <5 | 0·0054 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 52 (70%) | .. |
| 0 to <1 | 0·0007 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 16 (84%) | .. |
| Overall | .. | 836 | 231 (28%) | 1039 | 558 (54%) | 0·34 (0·29–0·40) |
Invasive management defined as an invasive procedure within 3 days of peak troponin concentration.