Fewer heart attack death rates
Medicare has released data stating that the heart attack death rates have dropped significantly in the U.S. hospitals. According to Yale cardiologist Harlan Krumholz this is a remarkable accomplishment for the American medical history, since the percentage of patients that suffer heart attacks dropped from 16.6 percent in 2009 to 16.2 percent in 2010. Nancy Foster from American Hospital Association says that there have been made tremendous efforts to shorten the time that is required to clean a heart attack patient’s blocked arteries ands that the change in the process of treatment is the one that led to this success.
The lowering of this percent is the result of seven long years of efforts made by United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, but the CMS officials say that do not have enough information related to the heart attack mortality in order to publish an official report. Although this data is satisfactory, about 25 percent of the patients with heart failure and 20 percent of the patients that have suffered a heart attack come back to the hospital within a month of their discharge, which raises the costs of the treatment and draws attention on the transition of the patients from the hospital to their home.
