Outcomes
Deaths, heart failure, death, cardiovascular death
HEART FAILURE, MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISEASES, EVENT
The primary outcome measures were overall use of class I guideline recommended care processes, and time to the composite of cardiovascular death, non-fatal myocardial infarction, new onset heart failure hospital admission, or readmission for cardiovascular event within 12 months. Secondary outcome measures included the total duration of hospital stay, EQ-5D-5L (five domain, five level version of the EuroQoL index) utilities, unscheduled revascularisation, and the individual components of the composite endpoint over 12 month follow-up.Follow-up data for use of hospital healthcare, and dates and causes of death were collected using Hospital Episode Statistics of National Health Service Digital and the Civil Registration of Deaths Register of the Office for National Statistics. These data used international classification of diseases 10th revision (ICD-10) codes.