Regional variations in primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction patients: A trajectory analysis using the national claims database in Japan

• Hisashi Itoshima,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Healthcare Economics and Quality Management, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Jung-ho Shin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Healthcare Economics and Quality Management, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Noriko Sasaki,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Healthcare Economics and Quality Management, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Etsu Goto,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Healthcare Economics and Quality Management, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Susumu Kunisawa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Healthcare Economics and Quality Management, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Yuichi Imanaka

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: imanaka-y@umin.net

  Affiliations Department of Healthcare Economics and Quality Management, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Department of Health Security System, Centre for Health Security, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4613-2159

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