The phrase "availability of catheterization facilities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical or healthcare contexts when discussing the presence or accessibility of catheterization services in a facility.
Example: "The hospital's report highlighted the availability of catheterization facilities as a critical factor in patient care."
Alternatives: "access to catheterization services" or "presence of catheterization resources".
The potential of this approach in patients not immediately undergoing PCI due to lack of catheterization facilities is worth studying.
Unlike Alter et al., we did not find an effect of availability of cardiac catheterization facilities on rates of readmissions for unstable angina.
In order to identify the interplay between physician specialty, university affiliation, volume of AMI admissions and on-site availability of cardiac catheterization facilities, we included all these variables in our multivariate models.
Overall, non-invasive cardiac procedures were not used more frequently at hospitals without on-site availability of cardiac catheterization facilities (Table 2).
In many health care systems, the availability of coronary catheterization facilities and access to such procedures is viewed as a key indicator of the "health" of a health care system [ 25].
We hypothesized that non-availability of cardiac catheterization facilities might translate into a higher use of non-invasive cardiac procedures, given the need to perform cardiac risk stratification.
A total of 16 hospitals had on-site cardiac catheterization facilities over the study period, and there were no changes in availability of catheterization at each of these hospitals over the study period.
Although the TIMI UA/NSTEMI score was created for a composite endpoint of mortality, recurrent MI, and repeat revascularization, the difficulties associated with such combined endpoints – i.e. regional treatment biases including availability of catheterization laboratories – have been previously noted [7], [18].
Lack of availability of on-site cardiac catheterization facilities did not result in an increased use of non-invasive testing for risk stratification following AMI.
We sought to determine how availability of on-site cardiac catheterization facilities at the hospital of admission for AMI might influence resource utilization, as well as fatal and non-fatal outcomes after AMI.
