Comprehensive hospital care improvement strategies reduce time to treatment in ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction

Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-33

  Lipton, Jonathan A ^b   Broce, Mike ^a   Lucas, Dan ^a   Mimnagh, Kathleen ^a   Matthews, Anne ^a   Reyes, Bernardo ^a   Burdette, John ^a   Wagner, Galen S ^c   Warren, Stafford G ^a  

^a CHARLESTON AREA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; In hospital; Strategies; Time reduction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; CARDIOLOGIST; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

EID: 33749437577     PISSN: 1535282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.hpc.0000202248.77279.69     Document Type: Review

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