Hospital process intervals, not EMS time intervals, are the most important predictors of rapid reperfusion in EMS patients with st-segment elevation myocardial infarction

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 115-120

  Clark, Carol Lynn ^a   Berman, Aaron D ^a   McHugh, Ann ^a   Roe, Edward Jedd ^a   Boura, Judith ^a   Swor, Robert A ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

intervals; perfusion; prehospital; processes; STEMI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EFFICIENCY, ORGANIZATIONAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 82555194435     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10903127.2011.615012     Document Type: Article

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