April 27th, 2011

From Reuters:

“When doctors follow guidelines for treating patients after a heart attack, more patients survive, according to a new study from Sweden published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The findings show that “things that we test in clinical trials do work in real life (and) make huge impacts on mortality,” said Dr. Debabrata Mukherjee, a cardiologist at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso who wrote a commentary published with the study in JAMA.

Despite better adherence to guidelines, there is still room for improvement in Sweden and abroad, researchers said — which should be accompanied by still better outcomes for patients.”