Table 2 Management during hospitalization in tertiary and secondary care hospitals in Estonia in 2001 and 2007
Tertiary care hospitals | Secondary care hospitals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year 2001 | Year 2007 | P | Year 2001 | Year 2007 | P | |
% | % | % | % | |||
n = 210 | n = 327 | n = 213 | n = 360 | |||
Medications | ||||||
Aspirin | 87.1 | 94.2 | 0.004 | 88.3 | 86.4 | 0.428 |
Clopidogrel/ticlopidine | 17.1 | 61.5 | < 0.001 | 0.0 | 10.6 | NA |
Anticoagulants | 89.0 | 93.0 | 0.092 | 85.4 | 92.8 | 0.007 |
Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inh | 12.4 | 38.8 | < 0.001 | 0.5 | 3.1 | 0.037 |
Beta-blockers | 79.5 | 82.6 | 0.395 | 76.1 | 77.8 | 0.707 |
Nitrates | 92.4 | 78.9 | < 0.001 | 96.7 | 85.6 | < 0.001 |
ACEI/ARB | 70.5 | 74.9 | 0.267 | 37.1 | 62.2 | < 0.001 |
Statins | 26.7 | 67.9 | < 0.001 | 5.6 | 30.8 | < 0.001 |
Cardiac catheterization | 35.7 | 78.3 | < 0.001 | 0.0 | 6.7 | NA |
Revascularisation | 27.6 | 64.2 | < 0.001 | 0.0 | 4.2 | NA |
PCI | 22.4 | 61.5 | < 0.001 | 0.0 | 4.2 | NA |
CABG | 5.2 | 3.7 | 0.381 | 0.0 | 0.0 | NA |
Reperfusion for STEMI | 42.3 | 64.2 | < 0.001 | 44.1 | 34.1 | 0.073 |
Thrombolysis | 35.4 | 7.4 | < 0.001 | 44.1 | 34.1 | 0.073 |
Primary PCI | 6.9 | 56.8 | < 0.001 | 0.0 | 0.0 | NA |
Echocardiography | 81.9 | 85.3 | 0.292 | 52.1 | 51.9 | 0.969 |
Stress-testing | 19.0 | 1.8 | < 0.001 | 8.0 | 2.6 | 0.023 |