Acute coronary syndrome in the Middle East: The importance of registries for quality assessment and plans for improvement | Zendy

Jassim Al Suwaidi | Zendy

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Acute coronary syndrome in the Middle East: The importance of registries for quality assessment and plans for improvement

Author(s) -

Jassim Al Suwaidi

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

global cardiology science and practice

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2305-7823

DOI - 10.5339/gcsp.2013.2

Subject(s) - acute coronary syndrome , medicine , clinical practice , middle east , quality management , intensive care medicine , quality assessment , medical emergency , emergency medicine , family medicine , pathology , management system , myocardial infarction , operations management , geography , archaeology , external quality assessment , economics

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) represents one of the most common causes of death worldwide. Several practice guidelines have been developed in Europe and North America to improve outcome of ACS patients through implementation of the recommendations into clinical practice. It is well know that there is wide gap between guidelines and implementation in real practice as was demonstrated in registry findings mainly conducted in the developed world. Here in we review main gaps in the management of ACS patients observed from two recent registries conducted in the Middle East.

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