Figure 6. Percentage of patients in the acute myocardial infarction cohort who received the specified therapy (among ideal candidates), according to type of hospital and quintile of Medicare spending. Arrows show the direction of any statistically significant association (P 0.05) between the percentage of patients receiving a specified service and regional End-of-Life Expenditure Index differences. An arrow pointing upward indicates that as spending increases across regions, the percentage of patients receiving a specified service increases. A P value greater than 0.05 was considered not significant.

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