Which most accurately characterize Medicare clients with acute myocardial infarctions (AMIs) who are treated in rural hospitals? (Select all that apply.)
A) Less likely to experience an opportunistic infection than those in urban hospitals
B) Less likely to receive recommended treatments than those in urban hospitals
C) More likely to have a second AMI within a month of the first than those in urban hospitals
D) Have significantly higher adjusted 30-day post-AMI death rates from all causes than those in urban hospitals
E) Experience faster recovery times than those in urban hospitals
Ans: B, D
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Medicare clients with AMI who were treated in rural hospitals were less likely than those treated in urban hospitals to receive recommended treatments and had significantly higher adjusted 30-day post-AMI death rates from all causes than those in urban hospitals. The other answers are not true.
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