Abstract
Our previous study found that less than a fifth of patients admitted to hospital with suspected acute myocardial infarction had been given aspirin by their general practitioner before their admission.1 This result is surprising given that the early use of aspirin, alone or in combination with intravenous thrombolytic agents, is obviously beneficial2 and that guidelines have been published on such use.3 We suspected that one of the reasons for the low use of aspirin was that general practitioners were not carrying the drug in their doctor's bag. We therefore conducted a survey to investigate this hypothesis further. We selected the study sample in June 1993 with the help of Oxford Regional Health …
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