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What's new in acute coronary syndrome?

Hawley DA

Harris School of Nursing, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. d.hawley@tcu.edu

Patients presenting with ACS are an exciting challenge for health care providers. It has been documented that hospitals that carry out evidence-based therapies related to ACS have reduced mortality rates and better outcomes in general. The use of evidence-based practices has been shown to be more difficult in women, the elderly, and nonwhite patients. This suggests that there are opportunities to make more substantial improvements in outcomes for these groups of individuals. There is a tremendous need to use the knowledge gained in treating patients with ACS. Surprisingly little is known about why health care professionals do not institute therapies that are based on quality evidence. What could the quality outcomes such as mortality rate be for ACS persons if there were widespread use of the knowledge already in the literature regarding the care of ACS clients?

Published 24 November 2004 in Nurs Clin North Am, 39(4): 815-28.
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