@article{3d57f287c5bc49d9927e50f86136a6e6,
title = "Psychosocial adjustment of patients arriving early at the emergency department after acute myocardial infarction",
abstract = "The psychosocial functioning of patients arriving at the emergency department with an acute myocardial infarction early enough to be candidates for treatment with thrombolytic agents was compared with that of those arriving later. Patients who arrived within 3 hours were significantly more anxious when assessed 1 week after admission and had a consistently worse pattern of psychosocial adjustment 3 months after hospital discharge than did those who arrived later. The implications of these findings for efforts to improve early arrival at the emergency department, as well as for medical and psychosocial outcomes after acute myocardial infarction, were considered.",
author = "Carney, {Robert M.} and Freedland, {Kenneth E.} and Clark, {Karen A.} and Skala, {Judith A.} and Smith, {Laurie J.} and Alan Delamater and Jaffe, {Allan S.}",
note = "Funding Information: From Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri. This study w&supported in &t by USPHS Grant 1 ROl Hti2427-01 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and the National Research Demonstration Center Grant, SCOR in Ischemic Heart Disease, Grant HL17646, from the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. Manuscript received July l&1991; revised manuscript received and acceDted Sex&n&x 16,199 1.",
year = "1992",
month = jan,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1016/0002-9149(92)91296-G",
language = "English",
volume = "69",
pages = "160--162",
journal = "The American journal of cardiology",
issn = "0002-9149",
number = "3",
}