Involve nurses and patients to change physician behavior.
That's the advice from researchers at the University of Michigan who were surprised to learn that U-M physicians weren't exempt from the shortcomings documented among physicians nationally when treating AMI patients. They responded with aggressive internal and community-based initiatives to bring U-M physicians in line with guidelines from the American Academy of Cardiology and the American Heart Association.
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