Excess Cardiovascular Mortality in Latvia: A Novel Approach Based on Patient-Level Data to Estimate the Separate Contributions of Primary Prevention, Accessibility and Quality of Hospital Care

• Main Authors: Jacopo Lenzi (Author), Chiara Reno (Author), Jolanta Skrule (Author), Jana Lepiksone (Author), Ģirts Briģis (Author), Alina Dūdele (Author), Maria Pia Fantini (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundBecause quantifying the relative contributions of prevention and medical care to the decline in cardiovascular mortality is controversial, at present mortality indicators use a fifty-fifty allocation to fraction avoidable cardiovascular deaths as being partly preventable and partly amenabl...