Why the study?
Does reducing door-to-balloon time improve in-hospital mortality in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention?
Population
Patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
In-hospital
Authors
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DTB reduction may not improve STEMI survival; challenges its primacy as a quality metric and leaves open better process targets.
Does reducing door-to-balloon time improve in-hospital mortality in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention?
Successful implementation of efforts to reduce door-to-balloon time in STEMI patients has not translated into the expected improvements in in-hospital survival.
Flynn et al. (2010) studied this question.
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