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Heart Attack Indicator: Hospitalizations Measure: Annual number of hospitalizations
Data used in the calculation of these measures were collected by the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems for the Hospital Discharge Index (HDI). The HDI provides a central database of all Oregon hospital discharges for public health surveillance and hospital policy analysis. Information on emergency room visits, urgent care, outpatient surgery and clinic visits is not included in this database.
Before EPHT, there was no single heart attack surveillance system in place in the US. Mortality was currently the sole descriptor for national data for heart attacks. Estimates of incidence and prevalence of heart attacks and coronary heart disease were largely based on survey samples or large cohort studies.
Tracking heart attack hospitalizations will provide more information than death certificates or surveys, and will help with examination of time and geographic trends in heart attack hospitalizations, and evaluation of differences by age, gender and race/ethnicity.
The table and graph below present the number of heart attack hospitalizations in Oregon for the years 2000 to 2006. They show that, in each of these years, more than 6,000 people were hospitalized because of a heart attack. The numbers varied widely among counties, with more than 1,000 hospitalizations per year in Multnomah County and less than 10 per year in Wheeler and Gilliam counties. Of course, these differences among counties were largely due to differences in overall population size.
Table 1: Number of annual heart attack hospitalizations from 2000 to 2006 by county
Graph 1: Number of annual heart attack hospitalizations in Oregon, from 2000 to 2006 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
Table 1: Number of annual heart attack hospitalizations from 2000 to 2006 by county
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Graph 1: Number of annual heart attack hospitalizations in Oregon, from 2000 to 2006
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