The UK vs Sweden: Is the NHS really so bad?

Emmanuel N Lazaridis; Lucia Gavalova; Simon Jones; Tom Quinn; Clive Weston

doi:10.7287/peerj.preprints.253v1

The UK vs Sweden: Is the NHS really so bad?

Emmanuel N Lazaridis, Lucia Gavalova, Simon Jones, Tom Quinn, Clive Weston

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Sheng-Chia Chung and colleagues report in The Lancet (23 January 2014) an international comparison of cardiovascular patient mortality between the UK and Sweden. They suggest that ‟more than 10000 deaths at 30 days would have been prevented or delayed had UK patients experienced the care of their Swedish counterparts.” Further, they estimate that 1741 deaths would have been prevented in the UK had the Swedish pattern of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and beta-blocker use been replicated in the NHS from 2004 to 2010. However, their study does not provide convincing evidence that faster uptake of primary PCI or beta-blockers on discharge would have had an effect on cardiovascular patient mortality in the UK.

Original language	English
Journal	PeerJ Preprints
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.253v1
Publication status	Published - 21 Feb 2014

Keywords

England
Health services research
Sweden
Wales
acute myocardial infarction
comparison
confidence intervals
mortality

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