Variability in maximal suggested door-in-door-out time for hospitals transferring patients for primary angioplasty in STEMI

Journal of Interventional Cardiology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 596-603

  Harjai, Kishore J ^a,b   Orshaw, Pamela ^a   Yaeger, Lynne ^a   Ellis, George ^a   Kirtane, Ajay ^b  

^a GUTHRIE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TIME; TIME TO TREATMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT TRANSFER; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84890118023     PISSN: 08964327     EISSN: 15408183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/joic.12074     Document Type: Article

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