ANNEX – Additional tables

Table I Clinical characteristics of the patients according to the centre. Results are number (percentage) or median (25th, 75th percentile).

N / Age / Male gender / Diabetes / Smoking
(n=457) / Hyper-tension (n=457) / Previous angina / Previous AMI
(n=457) / Arhytmias
(n=327) / Previous reva-scularisation (n=457) / ST elevation (n=448) / Trombo-
lysis (n=457) / Antero / lateral (n=448) / Inferior/ posterior (n=449) / Q wave on day 3 (n=450) / WMSI (n=401) / Antipla-telet agents (n=456) / ACE inhibi-tors (n=454) / Beta-blockers (n=456) / Calcium antago-nists (n=453) / Nitrates (n=455) / Statins (n=185)
Centre 1 / 43 / 55
(50;64) / 36
(83.7%) / 13
(30.2%) / 27
(62.8%) / 19
(44.2%) / 17
(39.5%) / 1
(2.3%) / 2
(8.3%) / 0
(0%) / 35
(81.4%) / 21
(50%) / 14
(32.6%) / 26
(60.5%) / 25
(58.1%) / 1.31
(1.19;1.37) / 42
(100%) / 19
(45.2%) / 39
(92.8%) / 1
(2.4%) / 34
(80.9%) / 24
(57.1%)
Centre 2 / 41 / 58 (50;65) / 35
(85.4%) / 2
(4.9%) / 25
(61%) / 15
(36.6%) / 6
(14.6%) / 2
(4.9%) / 3
(8.8%) / 0
(0%) / 32
(78%) / 24
(58.5%) / 22
(53.7%) / 19
(46.3%) / 19
(46.3%) / 1.12
(1.12;1.28) / 38
(95%) / 20
(50%) / 38
(92.7%) / 1
(2.5%) / 8
(20%) / 7
(50%)
Centre 3 / 78 / 59
(53;68) / 64
(82%) / 9
(11.5%) / 41
(53.2%) / 32
(41.6%) / 9
(11.5%) / 1
(1.3%) / 12
(18.5%) / 2
(2.6%) / 66
(86.8%) / 51
(65.4%) / 25
(32.9%) / 38
(50%) / 41
(53.2%) / 1.31
(1.12;1.62) / 67
(91.8%) / 27
(37%) / 60
(77.9%) / 7
(9.2%) / 15
(20.5%) / 21
(84%)
Centre 4 / 13 / 55
(47;63) / 12
(92.3%) / 1
(7.7%) / 7
(53.8%) / 6
(46.1%) / 5
(38.5%) / 0
(0%) / 0
(0%) / 0
(0%) / 12
(92.3%) / 11
(84.6%) / 6
(46.1%) / 6
(46.1%) / 9
(69.2%) / 1.56
(1.31;1.87) / 12
(92.3%) / 9
(69.2%) / 11
(84.6%) / 1
(7.7%) / 4
31%) / 6
(60%)
Centre 5 / 25 / 56
(49;61) / 17
(68%) / 8
(32%) / 20
(80%) / 17
(68%) / 9
(36%) / 2
(8%) / 1
(9%) / 1
(4%) / 20
(80%) / 8
(32%) / 11
(44%) / 11
(44%) / 19
(76%) / 1.37
(1.25; 1.5) / 22
(95.6%) / 20
(86.9%) / 9
(36%) / 0
(0%) / 8
(35%) / 16
(69.6%)
Centre 6 / 17 / 53 (41;57) / 15
(88.2%) / 1
(5.9%) / 16
(94.1%) / 6
(35.3%) / 4
(23.5%) / 3
(17.6%) / 0
(0%) / 2
(11.8%) / 15
(88.2%) / 10
(58.8%) / 7
(41.1%) / 9
(52.9%) / 14
(82.3%) / . / 15
(100%) / 9
(60%) / 13
(76.5%) / 1
(5.9%) / 1
(6.7%) / 12
(80%)
Centre 7 / 99 / 59
(51;66) / 85
(85.8%) / 21
(21.2%) / 65
(65.6%) / 45
(45.4%) / 31
(31.3%) / 11
(11.1%) / 9
(12.3%) / 2
(2%) / 76
(76.8%) / 50
(50.5%) / 28
(28.3%) / 50
(50.5%) / 54
(58.7%) / 1.37
(1.25; 1.5) / 80
(83.3%) / 66
(68.7%) / 67
(67.7%) / 3
(3.1%) / 61
(63.5%) / 18
(54.5%)
Centre 8 / 71 / 60
(53;65) / 56
(78.9%) / 11
(15.5%) / 25
(35.2%) / 28
(39.4%) / 17
(23.9%) / 4
(5.6%) / 9
(16.9%) / 2
(2.8%) / 55
(87.3%) / 37
(52.1%) / 19
(30.1%) / 36
(56.2) / 49
(69%) / 1.25
(1.12;1.44) / 67
(95.7%) / 51
(72.8%) / 13
(18.3%) / 8
(11.3%) / 60
(85.7%) / .
Centre 9 / 4 / 65
(58;71) / 2
(50%) / 1
(25%) / 2
(50%) / 2
(50%) / 2
(50%) / 1
(25%) / - / 0
(0%) / 3
(75%) / 1
(25%) / 0
(0%) / 3
(75%) / 2
(50%) / . / 3
(100%) / 2
(66.7%) / 2
(50%) / 0
(0%) / 0
(0%) / 3
(100%)
Centre 10 / 67 / 59
(52;67) / 57
(85.1%) / 4
(6%) / 26
(38.8%) / 30
(44.8%) / 9
(13.4%) / 4
(6%) / 2
(3.5%) / 1
(1.5%) / 58
(86.6%) / 42
(62.7%) / 17
(25.4%) / 42
(62.7%) / 40
(59.7%) / 1.37
(1.12;1.56) / 60
(98.3%) / 24
(39.3%) / 62
(92.5%) / 2
(3%) / 12
(19.7%) / 2
(100%)
Overall / 458 / 58
(51;66) / 379 (82.7%) / 71 (15.5%) / 254 (55.4%) / 200
(43.7%) / 109 (23.8%) / 29
(6.3%) / 38
(11.6%) / 10
(2.2%) / 372 (83%) / 255 (55.8%) / 149 (33.2%) / 240 (53.4%) / 272 (60.4%) / 1.31
(1.18;1.5) / 406
(89%) / 247
(54.4%) / 314
(68.8%) / 24
(5.3%) / 203
(44.6%) / 109
(58.9%)


Table II Characteristics of the centres.

Hospitali-zations
(N) / Cardiac depart-ment
(N) / Perma-nent cardiolo-gist in ER* / Coronary angiopla-sty unit* / Beds
(N) / Patients admit-ted in ER (N) / Cardiac surgery unit* / Coronary angiogra-phy unit* / Hospitali-zation in Cardiology
(N) / Miocar-dial infarction
(N) / Rest echo exams perfor-med
(N) / Exercise test exams perfor-med
(N) / Trans-plants perfor-med
(N) / Beds in Cardio-
logy
(N) / Beds in Coronary Intensive care unit
(N) / Hearth failures
(N) / Stress echo exams performed
(N) / PTCA perfo-
med
(N) / CABG perfor-med
(N)
Centre 1 / 1300 / 1 / P / A / 309 / . / A / A / 704 / 183 / 2420 / 314 / 0 / 18 / 8 / 128 / 189 / 0 / 0
Centre 2 / 7553 / 1 / P / P / 183 / 24500 / A / A / 480 / 110 / 1089 / 863 / 0 / 16 / 4 / 22 / 45 / 0 / 0
Centre 3 / 16643 / 1 / A / A / 500 / 40000 / A / A / 578 / 112 / 3653 / 532 / 0 / 10 / 5 / 76 / 121 / 0 / 0
Centre 4 / 14266 / 1 / A / A / 350 / 41934 / A / A / 525 / 170 / 2426 / 460 / 0 / 14 / 8 / 100 / 110 / 0 / 0
Centre 5 / 33567 / 1 / A / P / 1767 / 3654 / P / P / 1286 / 302 / 3493 / 1914 / 0 / 86 / 5 / 478 / 248 / 84 / 112
Centre 6 / 5037 / 4 / P / P / 116 / 91000 / P / P / 2700 / 500 / 6000 / 8114 / 0 / 80 / 9 / 500 / 150 / 600 / 800
Centre 7 / 8000 / 1 / A / A / 350 / 1500 / A / A / 760 / 350 / 2500 / 800 / 0 / 24 / 6 / 100 / 500 / 0 / 0
Centre 8 / 62000 / 1 / A / P / 1100 / 4000 / A / P / 2800 / 100 / 5000 / 2200 / 0 / 21 / 6 / 500 / 120 / 40 / 0
Centre 9 / 12100 / 1 / P / P / 352 / 58000 / A / P / 1185 / 200 / 4045 / 1458 / 0 / 22 / 8 / 250 / 244 / 488 / 0
Centre 10 / 12213 / 1 / A / P / 300 / 37549 / P / P / 2500 / 300 / 4000 / 2000 / 25 / 32 / 8 / 400 / 200 / 600 / 400
Overall / 172679 / 13 / 5327 / 302137 / 13518 / 2327 / 34626 / 18655 / 25 / 323 / 67 / 2554 / 1927 / 1812 / 1312

* A=absent, P=present

Table III Total costs for the centres according to the strategies.

Results are median (mean, standard deviation) [25th 75th percentile].

Centre / Costs
Strategy 1 / Strategy 2 / Overall
Centre 1 / 11011(10858,920)
[2280, 11588] / 3765 (7980, 6827)
[2923, 12277] / 10959 (9653,8326)
[2923, 12205]
Centre 2 / 2223 (4849, 5275)
[2161, 4307] / 2923 (6559, 7103)
[2511, 8476] / 2861 (5551,6102)
[2223, 5606]
Centre 3 / 3280 (6889, 7701)
[2100, 9007] / 3473 (7236, 7064)
[2450, 10861] / 3123 (7007, 7311)
[2429, 10311]
Centre 4 / 3911 (6250, 4419)
[3273, 10162] / 15850(14816,625)
[12988, 15850] / 6011 (8806, 6470)
[3623, 12988]
Centre 5 / 4261 (5240, 2895)
[3561, 7111] / 6017(12434,1068)
[4611, 25676] / 5667 (8073, 7711)
[3623, 8430]
Centre 6 / 4559 (7097, 4684)
[4071, 11938] / 4900(10230,1116)
[2537, 12565] / 4556 (8573, 9006)
[2800, 11588]
Centre 7 / 2511 (6441, 8682)
[2161, 4206] / 3171 (8403, 9470)
[2573, 11925] / 2800 (7156, 8874)
[2450, 6797]
Centre 8 / 6017 (10122,8841)
[2336, 14741] / 5544 (10790,9655)
[2573, 17256] / 6017 (10233,9076)
[2573, 14741]
Centre 9 / 10600 (10550,427)
[10350, 10775] / 10350 (10350,353)
[10225, 10475] / 10600 (10562,350)
[10475, 10687]
Centre 10 / 2161 (5755, 7582)
[1860, 7067] / 2971 (9125,12195)
[2511, 12494] / 2560 (7029, 9633)
[2131, 10308]
Overall
(n=458) / 3561 (7391, 7903)
[2223, 11011] / 3850 (8344, 8893)
[2573, 12061] / 4206 (8589, 8775)
[2511, 11761]