Stent for Life Initiative - The Greek experience

EuroIntervention

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages P116-P120

  Kanakakis, John ^a   Ntalianis, Argyrios ^a   Papaioannou, Georgios ^b   Hourdaki, Stavroula ^c   Parharidis, George ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ATHENS MEDICAL CENTER   (Greece)

^c SFL   (Greece)

^d INTERBALKAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; ATHENS; DISEASE REGISTRY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; GREECE; GREEK (CITIZEN); HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PATRAS; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PUBLIC HEALTH CAMPAIGN; RURAL AREA; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; THERAPY DELAY; TIME; URBAN AREA; EQUIPMENT; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL PLANNING; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MORTALITY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REGISTER; REVIEW; STANDARD; STENT; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; GREECE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL PLANNING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REGISTRIES; STENTS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84901494292     PISSN: 1774024X     EISSN: 19696213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4244/EIJV8SPA20     Document Type: Article

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