whas100: Worcester Heart Attack Study WHAS100 Data

Description

Worcester Heart Attack Study WHAS100 Data

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source

http://www.mmnt.net/db/0/0/ftp.wiley.com/public/sci_tech_med/survival{Wiley FTP}.

Details

The main goal of this study is to describe factors associated with trends over time in the incidence and survival rates following hospital admission for acute myocardial infarction (MI). Data have been collected during thirteen 1-year periods beginning in 1975 and extending through 2001 on all MI patients admitted to hospitals in the Worcester, Massachusetts Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area.

References

Hosmer D, Lemeshow S, May S 2008 Applied Survival Analysis: Regression Modeling of Time to Event Data, 2nd edition. New York: Wiley and Sons Inc.