The pit-crew model for improving door-to-needle times in endovascular stroke therapy: A Six-Sigma project

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 447-452

  Rai, Ansaar T ^a   Smith, Matthew S ^a   Boo, Sohyun ^a   Tarabishy, Abdul R ^a   Hobbs, Gerald R ^a   Carpenter, Jeffrey S ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUNCTURE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TIME TO TREATMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WORKING TIME; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STROKE; TIME FACTOR; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VERY ELDERLY; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84963730848     PISSN: 17598478     EISSN: 17598486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2015-012219     Document Type: Article

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