Taking these into account, it is obvious that a number of
demographic, clinical, social and proximal factors have been
associated with late attendance to hospital after the first AMI
symptoms appear.
Therefore, the main aim of this study was to
identify the characteristics of a population of patients with AMI
with delayed hospital arrival after the symptoms’ onset.
This
study also assessed the association between demographic, social,
clinical and proximal factors with delayed hospital attendance
after the AMI symptoms’ onset.
The identification of these characteristics
and factors could lead to health policy decisions contributing
to the early hospital arrival, which improves the
outcome, in terms of morbidity or mortality, for AMI patients.