Contact-to-Balloon Time and Door-to-Balloon Time After Initiation of a Formalized Data Feedback in Patients With Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 46-52

  Scholz, Karl Heinrich ^a   Hilgers, Reinhard ^b   Ahlersmann, Dorothe ^a   Duwald, Holger ^c   Nitsche, Rolf ^c   von Knobelsdorff, Georg ^a   Volger, Berthold ^c   Möller, Karsten ^a   Keating, Friederike K ^d  

^a St Bernward Hospital   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Leineberglandkliniken Gronau ^*  (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CATHETERIZATION; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT DURATION;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 37449009624     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.07.078     Document Type: Article

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