A Comparison of Management Patterns after Acute Myocardial Infarction in Canada and the United States

Medical training is very similar in Canada and the United States, in that undergraduate and postgraduate training are both organized along the same lines and are considered equivalent in the two countries 1 – 3 . Not surprisingly, studies comparing the practice patterns of physicians in Canada and the United States have found only minor differences 4 , 5 . Despite these similarities, however, there are important differences in the financing of the two medical care systems, differences that have attracted considerable attention in recent years 1 – 10 . In Canada, expenditures for health care are controlled by the government, whereas in the United States . . .