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Heart Attack Care Quality Measures -
Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice
A heart attack may also be called an acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and is a life-threatening event that is caused when the arteries leading to the heart become blocked and the blood supply is slowed or stopped. This keeps much-needed oxygen from reaching the heart muscle. When a heart attack occurs, immediately taking aspirin and other medical treatments can reduce damage to the heart and even save a life. The quality measures in this section show some of the medically accepted standards for the care of AMI, as well as whether patients leave the hospital with medications and instructions known to be helpful after a heart attack.
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Click here to view the heart attack care quality measures for the CHRISTUS Health system as a whole.
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Click here to view quality measures by facility.
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Click here for more information about heart attack care.
Percent of Patients Given Smoking Cessation Advice
This percentage addresses the ratio of heart attack patients who smoke who received counseling on how and why to stop smoking during their stay in the hospital. Smoking increases the risk of having another heart attack, so quitting is essential to a patient’s health.
The data used to compute the indicator percentage for the system overall and each individual facility was collected from January 2009 to March 2009.
