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Winter Holidays Bad For Patients
http://www.sina.com.cn 2004/03/10 10:28  Shanghai Daily

  Heart attack patients sent to US hospitals during the winter holidays are more likely to die than those admitted during the rest of the year, researchers reported yesterday.

  Heart patients were less likely to receive drugs and procedures known to save lives if they showed up over the last two weeks and first two weeks of the year, the researchers found.

  They said their report confirms what common sense would dictate - that clinics, emergency rooms and other health facilities do not operate at top efficiency over the holiday period.

  "The decrease we found in proven treatments and the increased mortality suggests that critical services for life-threatening illnesses such as heart attack need to be maintained at full levels during holiday seasons," Dr Trip Meine, a cardiologist at Duke University in North Carolina who led the study, said in a statement.

  "The healthcare system cannot take a vacation. That includes not just the physicians, but all the other members of the healthcare team, as well as hospital and support employees."

  Speaking to a meeting of the American College of Cardiology in New Orleans, Meine and colleagues said they studied the records of 134,609 heart attack patients admitted to US hospitals from 1994 to 1996.

  They compared the treatments and fates of patients admitted during the last two weeks of December and the first two weeks of January to those admitted during the other 48 weeks of the year.

  "Significantly, heart attack patients admitted during this holiday period were less likely to receive angioplasty to open clogged arteries (12.5 percent versus 15.3 percent for those admitted the rest of the year), and had an increased mortality rate (22.5 percent versus 20.5 percent)," Meine said.

  (Reuters)




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