Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) includes heart attacks and unstable angina. People who survive an ACS event are at higher risk of having another cardiovascular event in the future. This report uses linked health data to map what happened next for 35,800 people who survived an ACS hospitalisation and describes the health outcomes they experienced. Measures of interventional procedures and medication are used to describe a person’s 'treatment pathway'.
- Cat. no: CDK 23
Findings from this report:
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1 in 9 people (12%) experienced the treatment pathway defined as most comprehensive following an ACS event
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Of people with a STEMI diagnosis, those who had the most comprehensive treatment pathway had the best outcomes
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People with a NSTEMI diagnosis had the most variation in treatment pathways
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Half of people who survived an ACS hospitalisation had an interventional procedure within 40 days