HeartBeat--improving heart attack care.
Ir Med J
; 104(1): 9-12, 2011 Jan.
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| ID: mdl-21387877
ABSTRACT
We aimed to save lives by assuring best practice in ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) through initiating the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) methodology nationally. Following collection of a minimum dataset, annual change in indicators in the five initiating hospitals for the period Oct 2006 - Sept 2009 was assessed by analysing the percentage of patients receiving the eight components of evidenced based care on admission and discharge and in-hospital mortality rate. For 635 patients, performance on seven of the eight indicators of care exceeded 90% annually. Timely reperfusion therapy (thrombolysis, primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI)) improved non-significantly from 68.2% (107 patients) in year 1 to 77.1% (118 patients) in year 3. In-hospital mortality declined significantly from 12.4% (24 deaths) in year 1 to 5% (9 deaths) in year 3. Evidence based STEMI care is followed to a high degree but timely reperfusion and PPCI provision remain a challenge nationally.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Infarto del Miocardio
Tipo de estudio:
Clinical_trials
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Guideline
Límite:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Ir Med J
Año:
2011
Tipo del documento:
Article