Australian patients managed better

Australia outperforms almost every other developed nation in the world when it comes to reducing rehospitalisation of people with existing cardiac disease, data from the REACH study shows. Three-year findings from a study of 32,000 outpatients with symptomatic atherothrombotic disease found only 23.5% of Australian patients who had existing coronary artery disease, cardiovascular disease or peripheral artery disease experienced an MI, stroke, vascular death or rehospitalisation. This compared with almost a third of Middle-Eastern, Western European and North American patients and almost 40% of patients from Eastern Europe....