Regional learning collaboratives produce rapid and sustainable improvements in stroke thrombolysis times

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 585-592

  Prabhakaran, Shyam ^a   Lee, Jungwha ^a   O'Neill, Kathleen ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicago; emergency medical services; quality improvement; stroke; thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILLINOIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COOPERATION; EDUCATION; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING EDUCATION; NURSING STAFF; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STROKE; TIME FACTOR; TIME TO TREATMENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHICAGO; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84988485958     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.116.003222     Document Type: Article

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