Mayo Clinic Study Shows Drug-Eluting Stent Use in Heart Patients Determined More by Insurance Type, Hospital Location than Medical Condition

If you want the best technology available to relieve blocked blood flow to the heart, the choice is a drug-eluting stent. And you are most likely to obtain the drug-eluting stent for reasons that have nothing to do with your medical condition, a new Mayo Clinic study shows. In fact, if you are a heart patient seeking care in an urban center, or a center in the northeastern United States, you are twice as likely to receive a drug-eluting stent than would a patient with the similar medical condition seeking care in a rural or Midwest hospital... Whole article: "www.engelpub.com":[ http://www.engelpub.com/News/Index.cfm?articleid=427095]

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