The BRIDGE-ACS study showed benefits of a quality improvement initiative in adherence to evidence-based therapy for acute coronary syndromes at public hospitals in Brazil. No mortality benefit was observed, but this finding might have been different if all effective therapies for in-hospital treatment of myocardial infarction were included.
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Mansur, A., F. Ramires, J. A BRIDGE-ACS over troubled water. Nat Rev Cardiol 9, 382–383 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrcardio.2012.70
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