Door-to-Balloon Times in Hospitals Within the Get-With-The-Guidelines Registry After Initiation of the Door-to-Balloon (D2B) Alliance

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1051-1055

  Nallamothu, Brahmajee K ^a   Krumholz, Harlan M ^b   Peterson, Eric D ^c   Pan, Wenqin ^c   Bradley, Elizabeth ^b   Stern, Amy F ^d   Masoudi, Frederick A ^e   Janicke, David M ^f   Hernandez, Adrian F ^b   Cannon, Christopher P ^g   Fonarow, Gregg C ^h  

^a VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL QUALITY FORUM   (United States)

^e DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTER; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THERAPY DELAY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; FEMALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REGISTRIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 63749090520     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.12.030     Document Type: Article

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