According to a 10-year retrospective study, high-risk patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) were also less likely to receive percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), according to Anupam Jena, MD, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, and colleagues. The results appear in JAMA Internal Medicine. Using data collected from Medicare claims from 2002 to 2011, Jena's group identified 211,058 hospitalizations to teaching hospitals for acute MI, heart failure, and cardiac arrest that occurred during the American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) meetings.
