UM: Health Care

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Michigan Radio reports on a recent UM study concerning treatment time and heart attack survival rate. According to the study, a speedier treatment has no effect on survival rate after heart attacks. The study comes in direct refutation of the traditional assumption that more efficient treatment ameliorates survival rates. The American Heart Association recommends that patients having a heart attack reach the hospital in 90 minutes or less. Between 2003 to 2008, UM hospitals helped heart attack patients get treatment roughly 40 minutes faster, yet no corresponding decrease in deaths occurred. [Source]