Treatment patterns in acute myocardial infarction patients initiated with prasugrel or clopidogrel during the index hospitalisation with one year follow-up (H7T-FR-B016)

Study type

• Study topic:
  Disease /health condition

  Human medicinal product
• Study type:
  Non-interventional study
• Scope of the study:
  Assessment of risk minimisation measure implementation or effectiveness
• Data collection methods:
  Secondary use of data

Non-interventional study

• Non-interventional study design:
  Cohort

Study drug and medical condition

• Name of medicine:
  PLAVIX
• Name of medicine, other:
  Effient
• Medical condition to be studied:
  Acute coronary syndrome

Population studied

• Short description of the study population:
  Patients 18 years of age or older who were diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction (MI) and managed in any of 213 cardiology units of French hospitals.; Patients who were included in this report were required to be in the FAST-MI registry for 12 months after index hospitalisation.
• Age groups:
  Children (2 to < 12 years)

  Adolescents (12 to < 18 years)

  Adults (18 to < 46 years)

  Adults (46 to < 65 years)

  Adults (65 to < 75 years)

  Adults (75 to < 85 years)

  Adults (85 years and over)
• Special population of interest:
  Other
• Special population of interest, other:
  Acute myocardial infarction patients
• Estimated number of subjects:
  2644

Study design details

• Main study objective:
  To describe prasugrel and clopidogrel routine use, and clinical outcomes. For more details, refer to the study report attached.
• Outcomes:
  Bleeding
• Data analysis plan:
  Continuous variables are presented with the sample size, mean, standard deviation, median, 1st and 3rd quartiles, and number of missing responses. Categorical variables are presented with count, percentage, and number of missing. All the analyses were descriptive without adjustments.For descriptive analyses, missing responses were counted and excluded from the analysis for each variable separately. No data imputation techniques were planned.For more details, refer to study report