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To the Editor: Every et al. (Aug. 19 issue)¹ are to be complimented on their article on the association between the availability of cardiac catheterization facilities and the use of coronary angiography and in-hospital mortality among patients admitted with myocardial infarction. Although they rightly identified several limitations of their study and tried to control for a number of sources of bias, incomplete information may be a more serious problem.

In-hospital mortality is not the only end point that leads most physicians to perform angiography in the post-infarction period^2,3. To rely on this end point as the linchpin of evaluation . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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