Aims: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute (ACS) or chronic (CCS) coronary syndrome is underutilised worldwide. The determinants of underuse are not fully understood. Using real-world data, this study explored the effect of socio-geographical factors on CR participation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This study aims to evaluate whether the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a deterioration in the quality of care for socially and/or clinically vulnerable stroke and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients.
Design: Two cohorts of STEMI and stroke patients in the Aquitaine neurocardiovascular registry.
Setting: Six emergency medical services, 30 emergency units, 14 hospitalisation units and 11 catheterisation laboratories in the Aquitaine region in France.
Objective: To assess the impact of changes in use of care and implementation of hospital reorganisations spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic (first wave) on the acute management times of patients who had a stroke and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
Design: Two cohorts of patients who had an STEMI and stroke in the Aquitaine Cardio-Neuro-Vascular (CNV) registry.
Setting: 6 emergency medical services, 30 emergency units (EUs), 14 hospitalisation units and 11 cathlabs in the Aquitaine region.