AHRQ - Beta-Blockers for Acute Myocardial Infarction

AHRQ has joined several other organizations in issuing a practice advisory and fact sheet in response to early results from the COMMIT/CCS-2 trial on the use of beta blockers within 24 hours of when patients arrive at the hospital with a heart attack.

The advisory and fact sheet caution that since all of the details on the methodology and results of the trial are not yet available, it is too soon to determine whether changes are called for in the current measures and guidelines for those patients.

AHRQ - Questions and Answers: Beta-Blockers for Acute Myocardial Infarction.
April 27, 2005.
http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/commitqa.htm