Effects of a culturally informed model of care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients with acute coronary syndrome in a tertiary hospital in Australia: a pre-post, quasi-experimental, interventional study.

Background: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) peoples with cardiac disease in Australia have worse outcomes than non-Indigenous people with cardiac disease. We hypothesised that the implementation of a culturally informed model of care for Indigenous patients hospitalised with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) would improve their clinical outcomes.

Methods: For this pre-post, quasi-experimental, interventional study, cohorts of Indigenous patients before and after the implementation of a model of care were compared.