Abstract 18: Improving Door-to-Needle Times with Target Stroke
| Autor: | Ilana M Ruff, Ali Syed, Natalia Rost, Joshua Goldstein, Michael Lev, William Copen, Joyce McIntyre, Lee Schwamm |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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| Zdroj: | Stroke. 44 |
| ISSN: | 1524-4628 0039-2499 |
| DOI: | 10.1161/str.44.suppl_1.a18 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Nationally, fewer than 30% of IV tPA-treated patients are imaged within 25 minutes, or receive IV tPA within 60 minutes of ED arrival. In 2007, we implemented a new institutional acute stroke care model to include 10 best practices, all of which were later included in AHA’s Target Stroke program. We evaluated the effect of this strategy on timeliness of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) care. Methods: We analyzed median ED door-to-CT (DTCT) and door-to-needle (DTN) times in 4,477 AIS patients enrolled in our Get with the Guidelines Stroke registry from 2003-2011. Predictors of DTN ≤ 60 min (DTN60) were assessed using Chi-square for categorical variables and t-test for continuous variables. Results: An initial CT scan was performed in our ED in 58% of AIS patients, 289 of whom received IV tPA. Median DTCT times and DTN60 dropped significantly among tPA-treated patients after the intervention (Table 1, Chart 1). The percentage of patients with DTCT ≤ 25 min and DTN60 doubled post-intervention [12.6% vs. 28.1% and 35.0% vs. 70.0%, respectively, p 60 min. Conclusion: Implementing the AHA Target Stroke best practices improved DTCT and DTN60 times for AIS patients, doubling the percent of patients meeting recommended targets. Only calendar year was independently associated with achieving DTN60, demonstrating a step function improvement after the guidelines were systematically applied. Therefore, changes in hospital-level, rather than patient-related factors are driving improvement. |
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