codes fixed-effects regression models on the following AMI outcomes: time-specific mortality rates, age, and probability of … PTCA on the day of admission. We find a small increase in 30-day to 1-year mortality rates among patients in communities … time, we find a substantial increase in long-term mortality rates, a shift to younger ages (suggesting that the older ones …

.35) percentage point increase in 90-day and 1-year mortality, respectively, compared with those not experiencing changes in distance …. Our results also suggest that the predominant mechanism behind the mortality increase appeared to be time delay as opposed …