Underuse of prehospital strategies to reduce time to reperfusion for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients in 5 Canadian provinces

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 473-480

  Schull, Michael J ^a,b,c   Vaillancourt, Samuel ^b   Donovan, Linda ^c   Boothroyd, Lucy J ^d   Andrusiek, Dug ^e   Trickett, John ^f   Sookram, Sunil ^g   Travers, Andrew ^h   Vermeulen, Marian J ^a   Tu, Jack V ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d Gouvernement du Quebec   (Canada)

^e BC Emergency and Health Services Commission   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^h Government of Nova Scotia Emergency Health Services   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Emergency medicine; Paramedics; Prehospital care; Reperfusion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY CARE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; URBAN AREA; AMBULANCE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART INFARCTION; METHODOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMBULANCES; CANADA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT TRANSFER; QUESTIONNAIRES; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954691501     PISSN: 14818035     EISSN: 14818035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1481803500011672     Document Type: Article

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