Improving Door-to-Needle Times A Single Center Validation of the Target Stroke Hypothesis
Improving Door-to-Needle Times A Single Center Validation of the Target Stroke Hypothesis
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DOI:
10.1161/strokeaha.113.004073
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发表时间:
2014-02-01
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影响因子:
8.3
通讯作者:
Schwamm, Lee H.
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作者:
Ruff, Ilana M.;Ali, Syed F.;Schwamm, Lee H.
Background and Purpose National guidelines recommend imaging within 25 minutes of emergency department arrival and intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator within 60 minutes of emergency department arrival for patients with acute stroke. In 2007, we implemented a new institutional acute stroke care model to include 10 best practices and evaluated the effect of this intervention on improving door-to-computed tomography (CT) and door-to-needle (DTN) times at our hospital.Methods We compared patients who presented directly to our hospital with acute ischemic stroke in the preintervention (2003-2006) and postintervention (2008-2011) periods. We did not include 2007, the year that the new protocol was established. Predictors of DTN 60 minutes before and after the intervention were assessed using (2) for categorical variables, and t test and Wilcoxon signed-rank test for continuous variables.Results Among 2595 patients with acute stroke, 284 (11%) received intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator. For patients arriving within an intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator window, door-to-CT