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Project Audit of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in patients with acute coronary syndromes was approved by the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic on 13 May 1996. The essence of the project resides in a systematic and complex analysis of quality of provided medical care and the use of sources with the seeking for possibilities of improvement of the provided care aimed at prognosis and quality of life of patients with acute coronary syndrome (acute infarction, unstable angina pectoris, sudden cardiac death). The subsequent step will reside in the Project of Sudden Cardiac Death Prevention and the establishment of the myocardial infarction register.