US Patients More Likely Than English Patients To Receive Life-Saving Surgery

Patients with a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (rAAA)– a very serious life-threatening illness that occurs more often in elderly men– have better outcomes in the United States than in England, according to a new study published in the Lancet. Researchers at the University of London compared hospital data from 11,799 rAAA patients in England with 23,838 rAAA patients in the U.S. They found that U.S. patients were more likely than English patients to have a procedure to repair the rAAA and to survive their hospital stay. … Click here to read the full post on Forbes.
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