OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of heart attack patients' access to intensive treatment on mortality and costs. DATA SOURCES Administrative data of 4,920 patients with acute myocardial infarction from the Austrian Social Security Database and the Upper Austrian Sickness Fund for the period 2002-2011. STUDY DESIGN As treatment intensity in a hospital largely depends on whether it has a cat...

This study investigates factors affecting older persons’ state of loneliness in multi-ethnic Malaysia using data from the 2004 Malaysian Population and Family Survey, the first nationally representative sample in Malaysia. The study sample was extracted to include Malays, Chinese, Indians and other Indigenous groups aged 60 and above, and who had children (n = 1791). Cross-tabulations and ordin...

Aim: Food insecurity status was evaluated in the cases diagnosed with febrile convulsions (FC) and whether food a risk factor FC investigated. Materials Methods: A questionnaire consisting of 18 questions applied to parents 40 patients who were order determine (Study group). The admitted general pediatric outpatient clinic included study as control group. Results: statistically significant diff...