Improvements in time to reperfusion: Do women have an advantage?

Critical Pathways in Cardiology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-42

  Rao, Veena ^a,d   Safdar, Basmah ^a   Parkosewich, Janet ^a,b   Lee, L Veronica ^a   D'Onofrio, Gail ^b   Foody, JoAnne M ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Yale Cardiology at the Shoreline   (United States)

Author keywords

Door to balloon time; Educational campaign; PCI; STEMI; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT CARE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION; SEX DIFFERENCE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOMEN'S HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEALTH; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 66949160466     PISSN: 1535282X     EISSN: 15352811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HPC.0b013e318194e443     Document Type: Article

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