Australia; NSW
Getting support to correctly diagnose a suspected heart attack can help rural hospitals reduce the proportion of heart attacks they miss and increase the rate of treatment, according to Australian research. The study looked at the impact of automatically notifying a bigger tertiary hospital coronary care unit when a patient visits a rural hospital with a suspected heart attack. The patient's test results are reviewed by staff from the bigger hospital who then call the rural doctor to help them with diagnosis and treatment. The study found that this system meant that none of the 46 heart attacks assessed were missed, compared with 27 out of 77 which were missed in rural hospitals without this system.
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