The real and changing atherothrombotic disease burden and secondary prevention

患有心脏、大脑或腿部血管狭窄的澳大利亚人的绝对数量正在增加，这主导着健康优先事项和支出。通过将卫生部的数据集联系起来，而不是确定个人的数据，将确定住院人数的趋势、慢性保护性药物的处方以及在各种情况下对卫生系统的成本后果。调查结果将提供医院护理的质量衡量标准，并为质量改进提供信息

Absolute numbers of Australians with diseased narrowed blood vessels in the heart, brain or leg are increasing, dominating health priorities and expenditure. By linking Department of Health datasets, without identifying individual's, trends in hospital admissions, prescription of chronic protective medications and the cost consequences to the health system among and across conditions will be determined. The findings will provide quality measures of hospital care and inform quality improvement