CHICAGO (Reuters) - Americans who have had a severe heart attack are far more likely to be readmitted to the hospital than heart patients from 16 other countries, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
Overall, heart attack sufferers from the United States were 68 percent more likely to be readmitted within one month of their discharge than patients in other countries, the team reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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